Employee welfare and workplace wellbeing on Access Utah

By Tom Williams

Published June 17, 2026 at 4:50 PM MDT

Two people sit next to each other at a desk with two computer monitors.

Our guest today is Jordan Mathis, health officer at the Bear River Health Department. We review the latest public health indicators reported by the department, including a decline in suicide rates and an increase in residents seeking mental health services. We also talk about employee wellbeing, focusing on symptoms of burnout and ways to protect against it, the key drivers of workplace wellbeing, and the links between wellbeing and health.

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Tom Williams

Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.

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