Center for Healthy Minds

Dekila Chungyalpa, founder and director of the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin, has spent more than two decades creating partnerships between faith groups and conservationists. She said there are economic aspects to the question of climate change — not least, how people will farm and eat in changed conditions.

The latest meditation start-up to come out of Silicon Valley is attempting to bring the benefits of jhanas, an ancient Buddhist practice, into the mainstream. Dr. Richard J. Davidson, CHM founder and director, weighs in about the red flags of framing it as a wellness solution in this latest @TIME Magazine article that's worth a read.

Burnout among healthcare workers is a problem that general surgery resident Sydney Tan, MD aims to address – and with a recent grant from the UW Center for Healthy Minds, she’ll start doing so. Tan is the recipient of the Center for Healthy Minds’ Center Director Award, which will provide her with $40,000 over the next year to adapt an existing mindfulness-based mobile intervention to address the healthcare context.