Two psychiatry organizations the Southern California Psychiatry Society and the recently formed grassroots Committee to Protect Public Mental Health have released statements saying that the actions of the leader of the Department of Health and Human Services have increased stigma, instilled fear and hurt access to mental health and addiction care. "As physicians committed to evidence-based care, we are alarmed by the direction of HHS under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr," the Committee to Protect Public Mental Health said in a statement.
After Brackley high school, Dammy worked as a secretary in Oxford, Basel and London before moving in 1967 to Philadelphia in the US, where she worked as a secretary in the law school at the University of Pennsylvania. The state's brutal reaction to protests about the Vietnam war and civil and women's rights had a huge impact, strengthening her resolve to challenge wrongs and create change.