What a challenging year 2020 has been! October is Mental Health Month which provides us with a targeted opportunity to think about and talk about our mental health and wellbeing. The 2020 Mental Health Month theme for the ACT is ‘Conversations and Connection’. In this presentation, Jo will discuss strategies that can help build resilience and manage uncertainty. Also, people across RSPH have been asked to share some of their experiences of 2020. Come and join us for ‘Conversations and Connection’.

 

 

Dr Jo Lane is a research fellow and clinical and cognitive psychologist at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, RSPH. She has been a practicing psychologist since 2016 specialising in treating first responders and veterans living with post-traumatic stress disorder.

 

Since 2019, Jo has been working with a large multidisciplinary team of researchers across the Australian National University on the Our Health in Our Hands Project that aims to transform healthcare by developing new personalised health technologies and solutions in collaboration with people living with multiple sclerosis (MS), clinicians and health care providers. Developing her career as a researcher in multiple sclerosis, Jo’s interests intersect across clinical, cognitive and health psychology, epidemiology, translational research, communication in science and improving quality of life for people living with MS.