Restoring Joy and Agency in Medicine
October 10, 2025, at 7 am PT on World Mental Health Day, ReSurge will be hosting a lecture:
The Connection Cure: Restoring Joy and Agency in Medicine
Register in advance for this meeting here.
About the Session
In many LMICs, healthcare workers are running on fumes, serving as doctor, advocate, and administrator all at once—knowing what patients need but lacking the time and resources to reconnect to the reasons they chose this work in the first place.
In this session, we’ll explore how professional fulfillment grows from three essential relationships — with peers, patients, and purpose — and why building community is one of the most powerful ways to protect well-being, strengthen teams, and deliver better care.
This trifecta fuels something even more transformative: the agency to change the system itself. Together, we’ll learn practical strategies to create inclusive spaces that address isolation, spark collaboration, and improve outcomes. When clinicians thrive, patients flourish — and intentional connection makes both possible.
About Liz Métraux
Liz Métraux is a writer and medical anthropologist who has spent the past 20 years helping leaders and organizations transform personal stories into triumphs of resilience and movements for change. For nearly a decade — including through the COVID-19 pandemic — she led a national study on burnout, loneliness, and joy among America’s clinical workforce, with a focus on underrepresented and mid-career practitioners. Her research has also focused on supporting clinician wellbeing in high-stress environments and in the aftermath of mass casualty events.
As founder of Women Writers in Medicine, Liz has coached hundreds of health professionals in using narrative to combat burnout, strengthen teams, and amplify their voices as thought leaders. Her work has appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, STAT, at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Harvard Medical School, and more.
Liz currently works for the United Nations Foundation to drive American investment in global health and build a more just, equitable world.
