3 Questions: Jayakanth Srinivasan on mental health in the military
Earlier this summer, the U.S. Army presented its “Outstanding Civilian Service” award to Jayakanth Srinivasan, a research scientist in the Organizational Studies Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. The award was for a multiyear project in which Srinivasan and a team of graduate students studied the Army’s mental health care practices, with an eye toward standardizing the system; the award itself says that Srinivasan has “substantially improved the Army’s behavioral health system of care.” Srinivasan’s research was part of a larger MIT project on military medical care whose principal investigator is Thomas Kochan, the George Maverick Bunker Professor at MIT Sloan. MIT News recently sat down with Srinivasan to discuss his work. Q. You’ve just been given the U.S. Army’s “Outstanding Civilian Service” award for your work to assess and restructure the Army’s model for giving care to soldiers with mental health problems. How did you go about...