Day 1 Activities: Experience Dartmouth: Nature as Rx

Come experience Dartmouth's profound sense of place that translates mental health and wellbeing theories into integrative practice.

Option 1:

10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Hiking Holt's Ledge

Join a moderately rigorous out-and-back 3.5-mile hike. Part of the Appalachian Trail, journey along the Dartmouth Skiway for a 360-degree view of local mountain peaks and peregrine falcons.

Option 2: choose 1 per block

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Hiking Gile Mountain

Join a beginner-friendly 1.4-mile hike through woodsy trails and climb a firetower for a 360-degree view of local mountain peaks.

Forest Bathing Among the Pines

Join a gentle, guided forest walk along the river, grounded in the science-backed practice of shinrin-yoku, to restore reciprocity with the more-than-human world.

Paddling on the Connecticut

Join a river adventure down the Connecticut River with kayaks or canoes with New Hampshire on one side and Vermont on the other.

Please note: This activity will only be available if the water temperatures remain above 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

Option 3:

12:15 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Hiking Balch Hill

Join a beginner-friendly one-mile hike through woodsy trails with a moderate incline to a summit meadow and birdwatching.

Forest Bathing Among the Pines

Join a gentle, guided forest walk along the river, grounded in the science-backed practice of shinrin-yoku, to restore reciprocity with the more-than-human world.

Paddling on the Connecticut

Join a river adventure down the Connecticut River with kayaks or canoes with New Hampshire on one side and Vermont on the other.

Please note: This activity will only be available if the water temperatures remain above 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

Day 1: A Day of Experience: Practicing the Whole Person Approach to Youth Wellbeing

2:30–3:30 p.m. 
Light Snacks & Refreshments

3:30- 4:30 p.m. 
Dartmouth Grown Initiatives: Outdoors

Introduction & Welcome: David Blanchflower (Prof. Economics, Dartmouth)

Moderator: Sian Leah Beilock (President, Dartmouth)

Panelists:

Bruce Sacerdote ’90 (Prof. Economics, Dartmouth)

Tommy Clark, M.D. ’92, MED ’01 (Grassroots Soccer)

Phil Ginsburg ’89 (General Manager, Recreation & Parks Department of San Francisco)

4:30-5:30 p.m. 
Dartmouth Grown Initiatives: Whole Student Wellbeing

Moderator: Jennifer Rosales (SVP, Community & Campus Life, Chief Student Affairs Officer, Dartmouth)

Panelists:

Klaus Mladek (Prof. German Studies & Comparative Literature, Dartmouth)

Diane Gilbert-Diamond ’98 (Prof. of Epidemiology, Medicine and Pediatrics, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth)

Mary Lou Aleskie (Executive Director, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth)

Willow Nilsen (Nature as Rx, Associate Director Dartmouth Outdoor Programs)

Sarah C. Crockett (MD FAWM DiMM, ER Physician, DHMC, Founder, Wilderness Medicine Program & Alliance for Climate Health, Dartmouth)

5:30-6:30 p.m. 
Food & Conversation

Day 2: Revealing the Crisis: Evidence, Engagement & the Decline in Youth Well-being

8:30-8:45 a.m.
Welcome & Introduction

David Blanchflower (Prof. Economics, Dartmouth)

Sian Leah Beilock (President, Dartmouth)

Lisa McBride (Associate Dean for DICE Office, Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth)

8:45-10:15 a.m. 
Surgeons General Panel

Moderator: Nora D. Volkow, M.D. (Director of National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health)

10:30-11:30 a.m. 
The Challenge Before Us: Declines in Youth Mental Health Around the Globe

Moderator: Jean Twenge (Prof. Psychology, San Diego State University)

David Blanchflower (Prof. Economics, Dartmouth)

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 
The Anxious Generation

Moderator: David Blanchflower (Prof. Economics, Dartmouth) 

Jonathan Haidt (Prof. Stern School of Business, NYU)-Virtual Participant

1:45-2:45 p.m. 
The Collapse in the Mental Health of the Young

Moderator: David Blanchflower (Prof. Economics, Dartmouth)

Jean Twenge (Prof. Psychology, San Diego State University)

3-4:30 p.m. 
Loneliness, Attention and Social Connections 

Moderator: David Blanchflower (Prof. Economics, Dartmouth) 

Panelists: 

Nick Christakis (Prof. Sociology, Yale) 

Darrin McMahon (Prof. History, Dartmouth) 

Graham Burnett (Prof. History, Princeton)

4:30- 5:30 p.m. 
Declining Test Scores & What to Do About It

Moderator: Jean Twenge (Prof. Psychology, San Diego State University)

Panelists:

Doug Staiger (Prof. Economics, Dartmouth)

Tom Kane (Prof. Education & Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education)

Day 3: From Insight to Action: A Global Agenda for Youth Well-Being

8:15-9:15 a.m. 
The Global Mental Health Problem: A UN Perspective

Pedro Conceicao (UN Director of the Human Development Report)

9:15-10:30 a.m. 
From Whence the Problem? Not Bowling at all?

Moderator: Prof. Bob Putnam (Public Policy, Harvard)

Panelists:

Prof. Jean Twenge (Psychology, San Diego State University)

Prof. Maurizio Pugno (Economics, University of Cassino, Italy)

Carol Graham (Brookings Institute)

10:45-11:30 a.m. 
Keynote Address: What Makes a Satisfying Life

Moderator: Prof. Alex Bryson (Quantitative Social Science, University College London)

Prof. Andrew Clark (Paris School of Economics)

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 
Commercially Addressing Mental Health Disparities

Moderator: Julia Bernstein ’07 (Chief Operations Officer, Brightside Health) 

Panelists: 

Ed Gaussen (President, Co-Founder, Mantra Health) 

Craig Lund ’02 (Co-Founder, Mightier) 

Sander Duncan ’09 (CEO, Founder, Sespe Health Holdings)

1:30-2:15 p.m. 
Measuring Global Mental Health

Moderator: Prof. David Blanchflower (Economics, Dartmouth)

Tara Thiagarajan (Founder, Sapien Labs)

Randall Winn (Founder, CapitalIQ and 22c)

2:15-3:15 p.m. 
Children & Mental Health: Views From the Front Lines

Moderator: Jim Sargent, M.D. (Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth)

Panelists:

Njeri Karianjahi, M.D. (University of Nairobi, Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital, Kenya)

Susanne Tanski, M.D. (PCP, Pediatrics at Dartmouth Health)

JoAnna Leyenaar, M.D. (Children’s Inpatient Pediatrics at Dartmouth Health)

Jen McLaren, M.D. (Children's Psychiatric Services at Dartmouth Health)

3:15-4:15 p.m. 
Dartmouth Grown Solutions: Technology & AI

Moderator: Prof. Bruce Sacerdote '90 (Economics, Dartmouth)

Dr. Lynn E. Fiellin (Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth)

Prof. Andrew Campbell (Computer Science, Dartmouth)

Dr. Lisa Marsch (Center for Technology & Behavioral Health at Geisel)

Dr. Nicholas Jacobson (Center for Technology & Behavioral Health at Geisel)

4:30-5:30 p.m. 
Public Policy Around the World

Moderator: UN

Panelists: TBD

5:30-5:45 p.m. 
Summation

Prof. David Blanchflower (Economics, Dartmouth)