About this publication:
I'm Ryan Roberts. Before anything else, I'm a man of faith, a husband, and a father. I'm also a Marine Corps combat veteran, a moral injury researcher, and a former healthcare executive. I spent 17 years navigating the wound that moral injury leaves behind, and the last five building frameworks and programs designed to address what the current system cannot. I founded The Journey Home, a peer-led moral restoration program for veterans, to put those frameworks into practice, and I'm currently collaborating with Baylor College of Medicine to study them.
The moral injury field is producing more research, more clinical trials, and more policy attention than at any point in its history. The field is fragmented by discipline, and the fragmentation is invisible to everyone inside it.
The Field Intelligence Briefing exists to fix that.
Every week, I review what the field has produced and explain what it means. Where a new study fits in the larger landscape. What a clinical trial gets right and where it hits a ceiling. Which policy developments will shape funding, and which are symbolic? What the field still cannot see.
The analysis draws on a set of original frameworks I’ve developed over the past decade: the Moral Injury Cascade Model, the Five Domains of Moral Restoration, and a clinical lexicon designed to give practitioners, researchers, and veterans a shared language for a wound that currently has none.
Who reads this?
Clinicians working with morally injured populations. Researchers studying moral injury, PTSD, and veteran mental health. Healthcare system leaders designing programs. Chaplains and peer supporters looking for the wider lens. Policymakers and funders deciding where resources go.
The Moral Injury Intelligence Hub
The Briefing is the interpretive layer of a larger project. The Moral Injury Intelligence Hub indexes every major study, trial, intervention, and policy development in the moral injury space, organized through the frameworks above. The Hub provides the map. The Briefing tells you what the current terrain looks like.
