In person at Brookline Booksmith! Celebrate the release of Project UnLonely with author Jeremy Nobel, in conversation with Nancy Turnbull.

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Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection

Even before 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis. Since then it has reached new heights. Loneliness assumes many forms, from enduring physical isolation to feeling rejected because of difference, and it can have devastating consequences for our physical and mental health. As the founder of Project UnLonely, Jeremy Nobel unpacks our personal and national experiences of loneliness to discover its roots and to show how we can take steps to find comfort and connection.

Dr. Nobel brings together many voices, from pioneering researchers, to leaders in business, education, the arts, and healthcare, to lonely people of every age, background, and circumstance. He discovers that the pandemic isolated us in ways that were not only physical, and that, at its core, a true sense of loneliness results from a disconnection to the self. He clarifies how meaningful reconnection can be nourished and sustained. And he reveals that an important component of the healing process is engaging in creativity, a powerful opportunity he shows us can be accessed by all.

Supportive and clear-eyed, this is the book we will take into our new normal and rely on for years to come.

JEREMY NOBEL, M.D., MPH, is a primary-care physician, public health practitioner, and award-winning poet with faculty appointments at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Medical School. He is the founder and president of the Foundation for Art & Healing), whose signature initiative, Project UnLonely, addressing the personal and public health challenges of loneliness and social isolation, has gained national visibility.

Moderator Nancy Turnbull is Senior Associate Dean for Educational Programs and a senior lecturer in health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In the latter role, Nancy helps to lead the school’s MPH and DrPH programs, field education and practice, and a range of other schoolwide educational activities. She is also the director of educational policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management and serves as the faculty field of study director for the MPH65 program in health policy. Nancy has served since 2007 as the consumer representative on the board of the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, the health insurance marketplace in Massachusetts. She consults to a range of consumer health advocacy groups and also serves on several other nonprofit boards and advisory groups.

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