Mental Health Equity and Advocacy Roundtable
4th Annual MHEART Conference: Navigating Care in Times of Crisis
The Mental Health Equity and Advocacy Round Table aims to bring together trainees, community health providers, researchers, and clinicians from across the bay area to build relationships, share knowledge, and strengthen or create collaborations.
Two-Day Community Mental Health Conference
Co-Host by:
San Mateo County Psychiatry Residency Training Program
Stanford Medicine Psychiatry
Residency Program
UCSF Public Psychiatry Fellowship
Event Dates and Locations
Day 1: April 16th, 2026 | 12:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Stanford University
Location: Li Ka Shing Learning and Knowledge Center ( 291 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305)
2nd Floor
Day 2: April 17th, 2026 | 9:00 am -3:30 pm
San Mateo County Health
Location: Sobrato House in Redwood Shore (330-350 Twin Dolphin Dr, Redwood City, CA 94065)
Day 1 – Stanford University
Opening Keynote Speaker — Will Martinez (https://profiles.ucsf.edu/william.martinez)Will Martinez is a leader in Latino youth mental health, focusing on culturally responsive care and reducing disparities in access to services. His work centers community-based interventions and prevention strategies that partner directly with schools and families, helping reimagine how mental health care can be delivered in ways that are accessible, culturally grounded, and stigma-reducing.
Concurrent panel sessions will explore:
- Climate Change & Mental Health
- Person-Centered Care
- Reproductive Justice & Mental Health
- Youth Mental Health
- Immigration Justice
- Global Mental Health
Closing Keynote & Plenary
Theme: Navigating Transition and Change in Community Mental Health
Featuring cross-sector leaders in policy, clinical care, and community-based work.
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Day 2 – San Mateo County Health
Opening Keynote Speaker - Ana Raquel Minian (https://www.anaraquelminian.com/about) Dr. Minian is a Stanford historian of immigration, detention, and Latinx history whose work centers the lived experiences of migrants within systems of enforcement and exclusion. Her award-winning book Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration reshapes how we understand migration by foregrounding the deeply human realities of undocumented life. Her work speaks directly to this year’s theme by illuminating how systems of crisis are historically produced, how they are lived at the individual level, and what it means to provide care within structures that often deny safety, stability, and rights.
Panel Programming Themes will cover topics on:
- Immigration, asylum medicine, and street medicine in the time of ICE
- Loneliness as a clinical and societal issue
- Major county policy and funding changes (SB43, Prop 1, BHSA) shaping care delivery
- Substance use treatment innovations in the field
Day 2 will also begin with an Indigenous opening ceremony from San Mateo County.
Closing Keynote Session - Helena Hansen (https://socialmedicine.semel.ucla.edu/helena-hansen/) Dr. Hansen is a psychiatrist and anthropologist whose work examines structural inequality, addiction, and the intersection of policy and clinical care. In her book Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America, she traces how structural racism and pharmaceutical marketing reshaped the opioid crisis, challenging individualizing narratives of addiction and highlighting the broader systems that determine who receives care, compassion, and treatment.
Check out the full schedule!
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We acknowledge that San Mateo County and Santa Clara sits on the unceded ancestral lands of the Muwekma and Ramaytush Ohlone peoples.
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