🧬 Hi! I am Adri Cortee, I am a 4th year Biomedical Sciences PhD student at Vanderbilt University. In this video, I discuss the mental health situation at Vandy and some literature that shows that Biology PhDs are mostly paid under the living wage. I also discuss some literature that shows correlations between poverty and bad mental health. I end with saying that universities should prioritize raising our wages as the most effective mental health intervention.
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🧬Literature in the video🧬
🧬Suicides at Vanderbilt highlight demand for mental health services
https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/02/21/suicides-at-vanderbilt-highlight-demand-for-mental-health-services/
🧬PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover living costs
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01392-w
🧬Living wage calculator
https://livingwage.mit.edu/
🧬Brown University Graduate Workers Win Union Contract in First for Ivy League
https://www.aft.org/press-release/brown-university-graduate-workers-win-union-contract-first-ivy-league
🧬Vanderbilt, Department of English, PhD stipend
https://as.vanderbilt.edu/english/phd-financial-aid/#:~:text=All%20students%20admitted%20to%20the,deducted%20from%20the%20annual%20stipend.
🧬Evidence for a mental health crisis in graduate education
https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4089#sec1
🧬Self-reported institutions in supplemental information: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fnbt.4089/MediaObjects/41587_2018_BFnbt4089_MOESM2_ESM.pdf
🧬How to Improve Mental Health in America: Raise the Minimum Wage
https://newrepublic.com/article/133302/improve-mental-health-america-raise-minimum-wage
🧬The Association Between Income and Distress, Mental Disorders, and Suicidal Ideation and Attempts: Findings From the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys
https://www.psychiatrist.com/jcp/depression/suicide/association-between-income-distress-mental-disorders/
🧬Socioeconomic Inequalities in Depression: A Meta-Analysis
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/157/2/98/90059
🧬The Oregon Experiment — Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1212321
🧬How Raising the Minimum Wage Can Be a Win for Mental Health
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-raising-the-minimum-wage-can-be-a-win-for-mental-health#Suicide-rates-drop
🧬Effects of increased minimum wages by unemployment rate on suicide in the USA
https://jech.bmj.com/content/74/3/219
🧬Financial Strain and Suicide Attempts in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/189/11/1266/5874604
🧬Relationship Between Household Income and Mental Disorders
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/211213
Chapters
00:00 Beginning + summary of part 1
01:22 Trigger warning
01:36 Situation at Vanderbilt
04:17 Biology PhD stipends in America, too low?
09:50 Is there a correlation between being low income and having bad mental health?
14:03 Roe v. Wade situation + end of video
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