Tia L. R. Hartsock, director of the Office of Wellness and Resilience was selected by the awards committee of the Hawai‘i Psychological Association to commemorate her work on the coordinated mental health response to the Maui wildfires.
The U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory calling loneliness the new public health epidemic and said social isolation poses health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes a day.