Future makers. New medicine and mental health. Episode 2

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Future Makers is a series telling the stories of a new generation of passionate change-makers. Their work is shaping and defining our future in inspiring and imaginative ways. For the Robb Nash Band, performing is a matter of life and death. Using music to spark tough conversations on depression and suicide among youth, Robb Nash, 35, inspires hope one concert at a time. After a diagnosis of MS changed her life, 29-year-old aspiring Olympic athlete Crystal Phillips founded the Branch Out Foundation, an institute that funds the investigation of a new area of medicine blending holistic and conventional approaches to health. Charles DeGuire, 33, inspired by his brother, created a robotic arm dubbed 'JACO' -- an intuitive, flexible design that attaches to a wheelchair and becomes an extension of the person using it. PhD Dan Werb, 36, an award-winning epidemiologist and journalist with expertise in HIV is on a mission to change the way we think about drug addiction.