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An Expansive View Into Obama’s Transformative Presidency

Along with this team and dozens of other staffers, students, and interviewers, the project was guided by the Obama Presidency Oral History’s advisory board that consisted of prominent historians, journalists, sociologists, and lawyers. “The board has been influential in driving some innovations in this project,” remarked Bearman. “We’ve been able to take the board’s guidance and broaden the frame quite remarkably.”

On the archival side of the project, Chelsea Reil, joined Columbia University Libraries in 2022 as the person responsible for describing the collection and stewarding the project through the cataloging process. 

The Project’s Design

A typical presidential oral history focuses on the president and a small group of advisers around him. Bearman and his team, however, wanted this project to reflect Obama’s approach to the presidency, one where he aspired to be in touch with the American people. “We wanted to decenter the presidency,” said Bearman. “We explored the relationship between those who have power and those who are recipients of that power. But we also examined how the experiences of those ‘ordinary’ people percolated back into the policies of the administration.” 

To provide a full picture of Obama’s impact, the team identified nearly 40 policy topics, including healthcare, Black politics, climate change, the environment, and energy. The research process then revealed a variety of people to possibly interview: not just high-level administration figures, but also mid-level staffers, activists, people affected by the policy, and also those who affected or shaped policy, like elected officials, university presidents, and people of every walk of life. 

Presidential oral histories often have a very small number of interviews devoted to first ladies and how they operate outside of the West Wing. The team took a different approach with a significant focus on the office and included more than 30 interview participants. “I didn’t try to compare First Lady Michelle Obama to other first ladies,” said Clark, who conducted dozens of East Wing interviews. “I focused more on the productiveness of her and her husband’s work together.”

The Interview Process and COVID’s Impact

The Columbia Center for Oral History Research is the oldest and one of the largest oral history centers in the country. Clark and Frazier utilized some of the interviews from the center’s vast oral history collections, including the September 11, 2001 Oral History Project and the Guantanamo Bay Oral History Project, to help train the interviewers in the project’s opening phase.

Each interviewer spent significant time engaging with the narrators prior to the interviews. Additionally, an enormous amount of research was distilled into specific topical outlines that each interviewee would receive prior to the interview. Initially, the interviews were scheduled to be in person. However, only a few were completed when the COVID-pandemic hit, and the team needed to shift gears to remote interviews. 

“Like all oral histories, they’re shaped by the moment in which they are collected,” remarked Bearman. “Today, plague and loneliness and isolation are not the first things that come to mind when we think about the world. But in 2020 and 2021, they were powerful frames for people, and we were able to think deeply with our narrators about what the world was like in a period just before this unusual moment in time.”

How to Access the Interviews

The public will be able to access the interviews in several ways. Incite will launch a preview version of the project’s website on May 31. The first tranche of interviews available will focus on President Obama’s work on climate change. More sets of interviews will be released throughout the year and into 2024. 

“The website will allow individuals to watch the video we captured, listen to the audio, and to read the transcripts,” explained Bearman. “We hope the site will reveal the ways in which issues relate to each other and the feel of the presidency.”

The interviews will also be made available for use by the Obama Foundation and the Obama Presidential Center, which is under construction in Chicago’s South Side. The archive will be housed and preserved at Columbia University Libraries’ Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Incite also commissioned interviews with partners at the University of Hawaii and the University of Chicago that focused on President Obama and the First Lady’s earlier lives and careers. These subsections of the project will be housed at both Universities.  

When asked what she hopes people will learn from the archive now and in the future, Reil responded, “I hope they learn the power of people’s personal stories and experiences when taking a wide view of history.” 

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Still No Health Without Mental Health

Raymond Aborigo, PhD, right, briefs one of our community health nurses on our mental health/high blood pressure care plan.

Every May, as we recognize Mental Health Awareness month, the global implications of ignoring mental well-being continue to grow.  As early as 1953, the head of the World Health Organization declared that “without mental health there can be no physical health.” Vikram Patel, a psychiatrist who transformed global mental health by demonstrating that even lay people can provide effective therapy for depression and anxiety, said the same 15 years ago.

In the intervening decades, we have learned ever more about how depression and isolation make cardiovascular and other chronic disease worse—and, conversely, how those chronic illnesses can worsen mental health. The United States Surgeon General, for example, has declared that loneliness is therefore now a public health crisis.

But worldwide, due to a shortage of health workers, funding, and political will, we remain far from interrupting this vicious cycle.

Globally, depression is the leading cause of disability, whereas cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death—so the two go hand in hand. Some four to six percent of the world lives with depression, and as many as 30 percent of adults live with high blood pressure and other heart diseases.

There is some good news, however: We know that simple behavior counseling can treat both diseases and others—not just one at a time, but together. For example, behavioral activation therapy for depression, pioneered by Dr. Patel and others, can also treat tobacco, alcohol, and other substance misuse—a major risk factor for heart and lung disease, cancer, and countless other chronic diseases. Conversely, motivational interviewing, another simple peer-counseling technique, can help those with chronic illness to stick to their medications, and enhance the impact of behavioral activation on depression.

In partnership with our colleagues at the Navrongo Health Research Centre in Ghana, we therefore developed and piloted a program—called COMBINE—in which community volunteers provide a single counseling intervention to persons living with depression or high blood pressure.

Combining behavioral activation and motivational interviewing, this home visit initiative offers strategies for improving mood, embracing healthy activities, and taking medication daily. Nurses and physician assistants support participants by providing primary care at clinics within walking distance. After 90 days, 93 percent of participants remained in the program, and 97 percent of them achieved control of their condition. In time, we aim to expand this program to include persons with other chronic conditions, like diabetes or asthma.

We hope to ensure that all persons with chronic disease have access to mental health counseling, regardless of depression or other mental health diagnosis—and that those living with mental illness can learn how physical exercise and other healthy actions can help improve mental health.

Despite the practical benefits of integrating mental health into chronic disease care, these care models remain underfunded and underused. Yet as more research shows how and why such programs work, we now have a playbook for how to change that. The road map includes using evidence-based treatments; reducing mental health stigma through community outreach; creating effective but simple measures to track patient progress; and recruiting respected community members to deliver care. Implementing these seemingly simple components requires ongoing efforts from national policymakers and local leaders.

The details will differ across communities, but the strategy grows clearer yearly even as the need for action expands in tandem. Mental health care is an ever-bigger part of health than we realized—but with timely action rooted in health research, that means it can also be a central tool in achieving primary care for all.

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An Expansive View Into Obama’s Transformative Presidency

Along with this team and dozens of other staffers, students, and interviewers, the project was guided by the Obama Presidency Oral History’s advisory board that consisted of prominent historians, journalists, sociologists, and lawyers. “The board has been influential in driving some innovations in this project,” remarked Bearman. “We’ve been able to take the board’s guidance and broaden the frame quite remarkably.”

On the archival side of the project, Chelsea Reil, joined Columbia University Libraries in 2022 as the person responsible for describing the collection and stewarding the project through the cataloging process. 

The Project’s Design

A typical presidential oral history focuses on the president and a small group of advisers around him. Bearman and his team, however, wanted this project to reflect Obama’s approach to the presidency, one where he aspired to be in touch with the American people. “We wanted to decenter the presidency,” said Bearman. “We explored the relationship between those who have power and those who are recipients of that power. But we also examined how the experiences of those ‘ordinary’ people percolated back into the policies of the administration.” 

To provide a full picture of Obama’s impact, the team identified nearly 40 policy topics, including healthcare, Black politics, climate change, the environment, and energy. The research process then revealed a variety of people to possibly interview: not just high-level administration figures, but also mid-level staffers, activists, people affected by the policy, and also those who affected or shaped policy, like elected officials, university presidents, and people of every walk of life. 

Presidential oral histories often have a very small number of interviews devoted to first ladies and how they operate outside of the West Wing. The team took a different approach with a significant focus on the office and included more than 30 interview participants. “I didn’t try to compare First Lady Michelle Obama to other first ladies,” said Clark, who conducted dozens of East Wing interviews. “I focused more on the productiveness of her and her husband’s work together.”

The Interview Process and COVID’s Impact

The Columbia Center for Oral History Research is the oldest and one of the largest oral history centers in the country. Clark and Frazier utilized some of the interviews from the center’s vast oral history collections, including the September 11, 2001 Oral History Project and the Guantanamo Bay Oral History Project, to help train the interviewers in the project’s opening phase.

Each interviewer spent significant time engaging with the narrators prior to the interviews. Additionally, an enormous amount of research was distilled into specific topical outlines that each interviewee would receive prior to the interview. Initially, the interviews were scheduled to be in person. However, only a few were completed when the COVID-pandemic hit, and the team needed to shift gears to remote interviews. 

“Like all oral histories, they’re shaped by the moment in which they are collected,” remarked Bearman. “Today, plague and loneliness and isolation are not the first things that come to mind when we think about the world. But in 2020 and 2021, they were powerful frames for people, and we were able to think deeply with our narrators about what the world was like in a period just before this unusual moment in time.”

How to Access the Interviews

The public will be able to access the interviews in several ways. Incite will launch a preview version of the project’s website on May 31. The first tranche of interviews available will focus on President Obama’s work on climate change. More sets of interviews will be released throughout the year and into 2024. 

“The website will allow individuals to watch the video we captured, listen to the audio, and to read the transcripts,” explained Bearman. “We hope the site will reveal the ways in which issues relate to each other and the feel of the presidency.”

The interviews will also be made available for use by the Obama Foundation and the Obama Presidential Center, which is under construction in Chicago’s South Side. The archive will be housed and preserved at Columbia University Libraries’ Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Incite also commissioned interviews with partners at the University of Hawaii and the University of Chicago that focused on President Obama and the First Lady’s earlier lives and careers. These subsections of the project will be housed at both Universities.  

When asked what she hopes people will learn from the archive now and in the future, Reil responded, “I hope they learn the power of people’s personal stories and experiences when taking a wide view of history.” 

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