Voices from Biotech: Jeff Winton, Founder and Chairman, Rural Minds
June 23, 2026
Storytelling Stage (Booth #3035)
Type: Storytelling Stage Session
Jeff Winton, Founder and Chairman of Rural Minds, will discuss the growing mental health crisis among rural youth in America and what his organization is doing to address it. Jeff grew up on a dairy farm in rural upstate New York, and after losing his 28-year-old nephew Brooks to suicide in 2012, channeled his decades of biopharmaceutical industry experience into founding Rural Minds — a national nonprofit dedicated to providing mental health information and resources to rural communities across the country.
Jeff will share the story behind Rural Minds' Rural Youth Mental Wellness Program, currently piloting in Pennsylvania and New York. The program pairs practical, stigma-free resources with an academic partnership with Northwestern University's Lab for Scalable Mental Health to develop rural-specific, evidence-based tools for young people in communities where providers are scarce and stigma runs deep.
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