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Fab Five

May: Five Advocates of Mental Health Awareness

The "Fab Five," NWHM's monthly curated selection of biographies and learning resources featuring five notable women from history and current newsmakers, uplifts five advocates of mental health during Mental Health Awareness Month throughout May in recognition of the critical importance of this growing field.

After defending her sanity at trial in 1864, Packard campaigned to ensure the rights of the mentally ill as well as those of married women.
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Elizabeth Packard

A leading advocate for culturally sensitive mental health care, Dr. Reiko Homma True is dedicated to improving mental health treatment for the Asian-American community and other minority populations.
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Reiko Homma True

Dr. Reiko Homma True

Naomi Osaka is one of the world’s greatest tennis players, having won numerous tournaments and awards and reaching the rank of World No. 1. Her openness about her struggles with mental health inspired others to share their own stories.
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Naomi Osaka

Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark was a pathbreaking psychologist whose research helped desegregate schools in the United States.
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Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark

Nellie Bly became a star journalist by going undercover as a patient at a New York City mental health asylum in 1887 and exposing its terrible conditions in the New York World.
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Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly

  

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