Unequal Hopes, Lives, and Lifespans in the USA: Insights from Well-Being Research in the Era of COVID-19

This workshop will provide insights from the new science of well-being measurement demonstrating how well-being metrics can track vulnerability to despair and related deaths and serve as warning indicators. Well-being based interventions can help restore hope in vulnerable populations and declining communities. It will explore the causal dimensions of hope, one of the newest well-being dimensions, based on empirical data and novel survey research. Finally, it will introduce a discussion of how publicly available national well-being data is critical to a wide range of public and private sector efforts to address our societal crisis of despair.

Webinars are converted to video on-demand programs with closed captioning after the live air date.

• Discuss the measurement science underlying well-being research.
• Identify the do’s and don’ts of using wellbeing data in the policy realm.

Carol Graham, PhD