Dr. Thomas R. Insel is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who is currently Executive Chair and Co-Founder of NEST Health in California. He served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health beginning in 2002, then in 2015 led a mental health team at Google’s emerging life science company, Verily; and, after launch, went on to co-found Mindstrong Health. In 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom tapped Dr. Insel to serve as the “mental health czar” of California.