Sara Gorman, Ph.D., MPH, and Jack M. Gorman, MD

Sara E. Gorman, PhD, MPH, is a public health specialist working on mental health, suicide prevention, and increasing the quality of evidence in the public health field. She has written extensively about mental health, psychology, global health, and women's health, among other topics, for a variety of health and medical journals. Her work has appeared or been reviewed in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Guardian, BBC, NPR, Science, and Scientific American, among others. She is co-author of Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us (Oxford University Press), along with her father Jack M. Gorman, MD.

Jack M. Gorman, MD, was Professor and Chair of Psychiatry and Professor of Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and on the faculty of Columbia University's Department of Psychiatry for 25 years. He is CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of Franklin Behavioral Health Consultants. He is co-author of Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us (Oxford University Press), along with his daughter Sara E. Gorman, PhD, MPH. His new book, Neuroscience at the Intersection of Mind and Brain (Oxford, 2018), describes in accessible prose recent developments in neuroscience, with special emphasis on how these findings relate to mental health, emotions, and psychotherapy.