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Justin Heinze

Justin Heinze

Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Public Health

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Notable Quotes

"These sustained reductions tell me this is not a blip. Whether it's distance from the pandemic, better institutional support, or something else driving the change, I think this is a promising counternarrative to what seems like constant headlines around young people's struggles with mental health."

"I still see that as one in eight students reporting suicidal ideation in the last year, so I take all of these with a grain of salt and think about the millions of students still facing challenges we need to address."

Stories

College mental health reverses course

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Co-Principal Investigator, Healthy Minds Study

College student depression rates climbed almost every year from 2007 to 2022—a 15-year deterioration that made "campus mental health crisis" a fixture of education headlines. That trend has now reversed. The 2024-2025 Healthy Minds Study, surveying 84,000 students across 135 universities, finds severe depression down to 18% from a 2022 peak of 23%, anxiety down to 32% from 37%, and suicidal ideation down to 11% from 15%.

Updated Feb 1