Milken Institute Health continues to work with employers across sectors and industries to advance public health priorities. This interview series is part of the Employer Action Exchange, which highlights ways to accelerate turning evidence into action that impacts employees, communities, and businesses. Employers are a community and a critical contributor to advancing public health priorities that protect, support, and advance people, communities, and businesses.

Jeff Winton, founder and CEO of Rural Minds, a national nonprofit organization headquartered in Chautauqua County that focuses on mental health equity for the 46 million people who live in rural America, noted that it is not just the weather this year that has been causing stress for farmers, but a lot of what is going on in the world as well. He added that the amount of extreme weather conditions seen across the country this year are not helping the matter either.