BRiTE Center's Ben Buck gave a talk at SMI Adviser – an initiative to provide support to behavioral health professionals focused on people with serious mental illnesses. You can watch the talk asynchronously here!

BRiTE Center faculty member Anna Larsen published an article that evaluates the associations between maternal depression and adverse perinatal outcomes among Kenyan mother-infant pairs. Read more about it here!

The BRiTE Center is hiring a postdoctoral scholar.
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Lola Kola, PhD, an mh4mh co-investigator, was profiled by the NIH's Fogarty International Center. Check out the profile here.

The research of Lola Kola, PhD, BRiTE Center affiliate and mh4mh co-investigator, was featured in the Vox article, "Poor countries are developing a new paradigm of mental health care. America is taking note." Read the article here and the study cited here. 

BRiTE Center’s Dror Ben-Zeev and colleagues at University of Ghana awarded $3.9 million R01 grant from NIH. Learn more. 

UW Medicine newsroom features research by Kevin Hallgren, PhD, showing how smartphones can be used to reduce barriers to methadone treatment for opioid use disorders. Read the article. 

The UW Medicine Newsroom featured an interview with Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD, on the recently-funded project to implement FOCUS, an app for serious mental illness, in community mental health clinics. Read the article here. 

The BRiTE Center was awarded $1.8 Million from PCORI to implement a mental health app in real-world clinics! Read more about the project here. 

Take a look at the profile on BRiTE Affiliate Lola Kola, PhD, in The Lancet. Access the profile here. 

Congrats to BRiTE Center mHealth specialist, Gabby Struve, for her recent publication in Preventing Chronic Disease! Read her paper, "Association of Depression With 10-Year and Lifetime Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among US Adults, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005–2018" here!

BRiTE Center Director Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD,  gives Keynote Speech at the South Southwest MHTTC First Episode Psychosis Conference, 2022:  The Future of Mental Health Care (is sitting in your pocket).

The BRiTE Center seeks a Postdoctoral Scholar. If you have a Ph.D. or foreign equivalent in Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Public Health, Health Informatics, or a related field (or will graduate in Spring 2022), and are interested in developing expertise in the development, research and implementation of digital mental health interventions, apply here! 

Congratulations to Trevor Cohen and co-investigator Gondy Leroy for receiving funding from the NIH for their project, "Professional to Plain Language Neural Translation: A Path Toward Actionable Health Information." The goal of the project is to develop automated methods to generate plain language summaries of biomedical literature. 

BRiTE Center members Ben Buck, Dror Ben-Zeev, and Greg Reger publish study in JMIR Mental Health.

Congratulations to Dror Ben-Zeev, Ayesha Chander, Ben Buck, and Justin Tauscher on their trial results published in Journal of Medical Internet Research!

Ben Buck, Ayesha Chander, Justin Tauscher, and Dror Ben-Zeev publish paper in the Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science.

Congratulations to Justin Tauscher and Dror Ben-Zeev on their article published in Psychiatric Times, titled "Integrating digital therapeutics into care of serious mental illness."

Ben Buck, Ayesha Chander, and Dror Ben-Zeev publish paper in Psychiatric Services.

Ben Buck and Ayesha Chander receive NIMH R34 Award for their study "Development and testing of a caregiver-facing mobile health intervention to reduce duration of untreated psychosis."

Dror Ben-Zeev, Suzanne Meller, and colleagues at the University of Washington and the University of Ghana publish article in JMIR Mental Health.

Rachel Brian, Justin Tauscher, and Suzanne Meller present at the 2021 Washington Behavioral Health Conference on "Putting technology to work: Innovative solutions to help you help others."

Justin Tauscher, Eliza Cohn, Dave Atkins, Kevin Hallgren and colleagues have article, "What do clinicians want? Understanding frontline addiction treatment clinicians’ preferences and priorities to improve the design of measurement-based care technology" published in Addiction Science & Clinical Practice.

Congratulations to BRiTE faculty member Kevin Hallgren on his promotion to Associate Professor!

Ben Buck, Kevin Hallgren, Dror Ben-Zeev and colleagues have article, "mHealth-Assisted Detection of Precursors to Relapse in Schizophrenia" published in Frontiers in Psychiatry.

Congratulations to Dror Ben-Zeev, Trevor Cohen, Ben Buck, Tim Althoff, Sarah Kopelovich, and Dave Atkins for being awarded multiple grants from the UW Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions!

Oleg Zaslavsky receives a K23 administrative supplement, "Development and Usability Evaluation of a Mobile Health Intervention to Support Healthful Dietary Choices in Older Persons with Dementia" from the National Institute on Aging.

Congratulations to Justin Tauscher and colleagues for their recent publication in JMIR mHealth and uHealth. 

Trevor Cohen presents at the AIMED Surgery, ICU, and Neurosciences meeting on Large Language Models, Linguistic Anomalies, and Alzheimer's Disease Dementia.

Trevor Cohen and colleagues have paper accepted to Frontiers in Computer Science titled, Crossing the 'Cookie Theft' Corpus Chasm: Applying what BERT Learns from Outside Data to the ADDReSS Challenge Dementia Detection Task.

Trevor Cohen gives talk at Columbia University Biomedical Informatics Seminar titled "Using Neural Language Representations to Detect Linguistic Anomalies in Neurodegenerative and Psychiatric Disease."

King 5 News publishes article describing BRiTE Center study.

Congrats to Dror Ben-Zeev and colleagues for publishing "Cost of mHealth Versus Clinic-Based Care for Serious Mental Illness: Same Effects, Half the Price Tag" in Psychiatric Services.

BRiTE Center has the most talked about article in Psychiatric Services for 2020.

Congrats to Lola Kola and Dror Ben-Zeev for their recent publication in JMIR Mental Health.

BRiTE's Dave Atkins and Tim Althoff 's paper accepted to Web Conference 2021.

Kevin Hallgren & Oleg Zaslavsky receive grants from the UW Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions.

Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD gives opening talk at the "Prospects 2020" Annual Conference, Lithuania.

Can Computerized Virtual Patients Effectively Train Health Care Professionals?

A paper published by Greg Reger and Colleagues in JAMA Network Open addresses this question.

Ben Buck, Ph.D. gives presentation at the Department of Psychiatry at University of California San Francisco

R21 awarded to BRiTE Member Trevor Cohen (UW MPI) and Serguei Pakhomov (UMN MPI) for their project entitled: "Computerized assessment of linguistic indicators of lucidity in Alzheimer's Disease dementia”.

Vice News story on digital mental health features BRiTE Center Director Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD

Congrats to Oleg Zaslavsky and Colleagues for publishing "Reactions to COVID-19, Information and Technology Use, and Social Connectedness among Older Adults with Pre-Frailty and Frailty"

Ben Buck, PhD, received NIH Loan Repayment Program Award from NIMH

BRiTE Center Investigator Kevin Hallgren, PhD, co-developing NIDA-funded addiction research training program for UW medical students.

The University of Virginia's Center for Behavioral Health and Technology invites Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD, to deliver a talk at their Seminar Series.

Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD, attends "Connecting Against Loneliness", a round table discussion hosted by the Aspen Institute and Facebook.

Congrats to BRiTE researchers Dror Ben-Zeev, Ben Buck, Suzanne Meller, and Kevin Hallgren for their recent publication in Psychiatric Services.

Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD, gives speaker series talk at the Early Psychosis Intervention Center (EPICENTER) at The Ohio State University. 

BRiTE Center welcomes ​Justin Tauscher, PhD as new 

postdoctoral research team member

Dror Ben- Zeev, PhD, joins Behavioral Health Institute Telehealth Rapid Response 

(BHI-TRR) - Strategic Oversight Committee

BRiTE Staff Member Suzanne Meller, MPH, MSW, LSWAIC, leading project examining COVID-19 response

BRiTE Faculty Member Benjamin Buck, PhD, receives 

NIMH Career Development Award (K23MH122504)

Microsoft awards grant to BRiTE Center Affiliate Tim Althoff, PhD to study natural language processing