ALT Light purple background. Top right: Dragonfly Mental Health and Z Zurich Foundation logos. Icon of laptop showing YouTube page containing Dragonfly's custom anti-stigma film. Text encourages reader to watch the video.

ALT Dragonfly Mental Health logo in top left, Giving Challenge logo in bottom right, with two images of Senaida Hernandez Santana, PhD. Text: "I’m donating to Dragonfly because science is demanding, and the people who do it deserve real support. Just like athletes have physios when they get hurt, scientists should have strong resources for mental well-being." Quote from: Senaida Hernandez Santana, PhD.

ALT Light purple background. Top right: Dragonfly Mental Health and Z Zurich Foundation logos. Icon points the reader toward the recently published paper detailing this anti-stigma work. Text contains a quote from Richard Harland PhD, Film Participant, UC Berkeley, Dean of Biological Sciences, reflecting on his experience participating in Dragonfly's custom anti-stigma film.

ALT Light purple background. Top right: Dragonfly Mental Health and Z Zurich Foundation logos. Icon of individual speaking at a podium. Text explains the power of first person storytelling, the research that backs the practice, and the results showing it effectively disrupts stereotypes and increases empathy. In this way, Dragonfly's anti-stigma film uses storytelling as a catalyst for cultural change.

ALT Light purple background. Top right: Dragonfly Mental Health and Z Zurich Foundation logos. Icon depicts individuals discussing ways to achieve targets. Text explains how stigma can be reduced through educational efforts and contact-based intervention, and how these strategies needed to be tested in academic settings - a goal which our custom anti-stigma film accomplished.

ALT Light purple background. Top right: Dragonfly Mental Health and Z Zurich Foundation logos. Icon depicts several individuals getting unequal shares of the available resources. Text explains the impact of stigma in academia on the education and career trajectory of academics with mental illness, which in turn can result in self-stigma that leads to hidden struggles and shame.

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ALT Light purple background. Top right: Dragonfly Mental Health and Z Zurich Foundation logos. Icon depicts an individual being isolated and talked about. Text explains what stigma is - a combination of negative reactions based on a specific attribute, and how this can be seen in academic communities that portray those with mental illness as unreliable, difficult to work with, or even dangerous.

ALT Light purple background. Top right: Dragonfly Mental Health and Z Zurich Foundation logos. Icon of hunched individual, head in their hands. Text explains that stigma is the #1 barrier to seeking care, the professional risks of disclosing mental illness, and the custom first-person narrative based anti-stigma approach we developed to combat stigma.

ALT Purple background. Top right: Dragonfly Mental Health and Z Zurich Foundation logos. Icon of academic mentor and mentee. Text explains what is covered in our managing upwards workshop, including the skills to set expectations, communicate effectively, and protect their wellbeing while maintaining a good supervisor-trainee relationship.

ALT Purple background. Top right: Dragonfly Mental Health and Z Zurich Foundation logos. Icon of academic wearing a mask. Text explains what is covered in our impostor phenomenon talk, including the prevalence and symptoms, and ways to reclaim confidence.

ALT Purple background. Top right: Dragonfly Mental Health and Z Zurich Foundation logos. Icon of academics climbing towards success. Text explains how our impostor phenomenon talk and managing upwards workshop address challenges faced by early career academics.

ALT Purple background. Top right: Dragonfly Mental Health and Z Zurich Foundation logos. Icon of diverse academic community in discussion. Text explains what is covered in the active listening workshop, including recognizing struggle, setting boundaries, and crisis response and prevention.

ALT Purple background. Top right: Dragonfly Mental Health and Z Zurich Foundation logos. Icon: stack of books. Text explains what is covered in the introduction to mental health literacy talk such as prevalence, symptoms, and causes.

ALT Purple background with a tan box. Top right: Dragonfly Mental Health and Z Zurich Foundation logos. Icons represent: Shared Lived Experiences, Assessing Self & Social Stigma, Open Discussion, Mental Health Policy & Accommodation, and Consistent Communication. Text explains Fighting Stigma as a community-driven effort to reduce fear and judgement around mental health in academia—using lived experiences and open dialogue to break down barriers to seeking care.