Women & COVID: The Decline of Wellbeing and Implications for Recovery

Deb Bubb was named chief human resources officer of Optum in April 2021. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing all aspects of human capital, including talent management, leadership and employee growth and development, rewards and recognition and organization development.Previously, Bubb served as chief talent officer for UnitedHealth Group, where she was responsible for developing and driving end-to-end talent strategy and ensuring the readiness of talent pipelines to support the growth of the business. She also served as chief diversity and inclusion officer for UnitedHealth Group where she was responsible for the strategic development and implementation of the organization’s efforts to build inclusion, diversity and equity into all business practices.Prior to joining UnitedHealth Group, Bubb was vice president of leadership, learning and inclusion at IBM. She also served 16 years at Intel where she held strategic business partnership roles and led organizational and leadership development, as well as learning and HR operations.Bubb holds a Bachelor of Psychology from Stanford University and a Master of Social Work from Smith College.

As a pioneer in the field of treatment and manifestation of anxiety disorders, specifically among Black Americans, Dr. Neal-Barnett’s work and research has been highly regarded and sought after, from popular psychology journals to America’s largest syndicated news networks. Her position as director of Kent State’s Program for Research on Anxiety Disorders among African Americans (PRADAA) puts the groundbreaking research she has conducted into action. PRADAA’s mission is to transform the African American community by recognizing and responding to societal needs through education, innovation, intervention, and dissemination of anxiety-based research. Taking this mission statement to heart, the betterment of Black communities across the country is the guiding force behind her work. She has sustained partnerships with Urban Leagues, Black churches, Black hair care professionals, Black doulas, and public schools. Increasingly, Black Americans are entering and rising through the ranks of corporate America. Realizing this and knowing from her research that different forms of anxiety are associated with being Black in the corporate workplace, in 2020 she contributed to a three-part series on anxiety for the Program for Research on Anxiety Disorders among African Americans (HBR) network. Her expertise on the “Anxiety of the only” led to a guest expert role on the award-winning HBR podcast The Anxious Achiever. At the request of HBR editors, she authored the article “How organizations can support the mental health of their Black employees”. This article has been used by corporations, companies, and organizations across the country, from Kenneth Cole and Boeing to small town United Ways and Chambers of Commerce. In the words of Dr. Neal-Barnett herself, “Whether it is designing intervention studies, disseminating research results, mentoring, encouraging and advising current BIPOC students and early career faculty, or sharing about Black Americans and anxiety disorders on multiple national platforms (print, television, streaming, podcasts), throughout my career my purpose has never wavered: Ensuring that Black Americans understand what anxiety is, how it is manifested, and that no matter what, they can reclaim their lives.”

Key Awards/Accolades: 2020 Jerilyn Ross Clinician Advocate Award from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) 2020 American Psychological Association Division 45 Community Partnership Grant. 2020 Kent State University Outstanding Researcher and Scholar Award 2008 Top 10 Finalist Kent State University Outstanding Teacher Award 2000 American Psychological Association’s Kenneth and Mamie Clark Award for Outstanding Mentoring of BIPOC students

Journals: 1. Journal of Black Psychology 2. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 3. Journal of the National Medical Association 4. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 5. Psychology of Women Quarterly 6. Clinical Psychology Science and Practice 7. Journal of Anxiety Disorders 8. Journal of Affective Disorders 9. CNS Her work has been featured on CNN, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Fox News, The Blend, SIRUSXM Doctor’s Radio, BET, as well as in O, The Oprah Magazine, Harvard Business Review, WebMD Magazine, Essence, US News and World Report and the New York Times. For more information follow her on Twitter @dranjela.

Jenny Carrillo, PhD, is inspired by innovative technologies that improve global health and works in healthcare technology to achieve health equity by removing barriers that contribute to health disparities. Dr. Carrillo recently joined Vitality Group whose mission is to "make people healthier.” As Senior Vice President of Health Solutions, she will lead Vitality’s U.S. expansion into partnerships with health plans, providers, and other ancillary health services. Previously, Dr. Carrillo served as the Vice President of Health Plan Solutions at Amwell, which had a successful IPO. As a strategic partner, she helps healthcare executives execute their digital healthcare strategy, expand access to quality care, and leverage their assets to achieve measurable objectives and improved health outcomes.

Prior to her time at Amwell, Dr. Carrillo served as Senior Vice President, External Affairs & Strategic Planning for Planned Parenthood of Southern New England where she oversaw their external affairs department and led organization-wide strategic planning. Passionate about racial and ethnic health disparities among women, she led cross functional initiatives to further health equity.

Trained as a Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Carrillo has more than 20 years of experience in healthcare, spanning from academia to executive roles in strategy, sales, marketing, external affairs, and cross-functional integration. She has contributed to publications and panels, speaking extensively about achieving health equity, and served on various boards. Her distinctions include an NIH National Research Service Award, Yale 100 Delegation to China, and Fellow of the Connecticut Health Foundation. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University and was a consultant with McKinsey & Co.

Dr. Marisa Rogers currently serves as the Executive Medical Director of the Atlantic Division of Oak Street Health, a national value-based care organization providing comprehensive primary care to patients with Medicare in low income communities. Before joining Oak Street Health, Dr. Rogers was an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Penn Medicine and served as Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine residency program and Co-Chair of the Health Equity Taskforce. She formerly served as Chief Medical Officer of Spectrum Health Services, a federally qualified community health center in Philadelphia. Dr. Rogers earned her medical and public health degrees from Emory University and trained in primary care Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.