Innovation & Inclusion in Digital Mental Health
Innovation & Inclusion in Digital Mental Health
Co-hosted by the Centre for Global Mental Health at LSHTM and Birkbeck Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Mental Health
The use of digital technologies in mental health treatment is a rapidly growing and complex field, with stakeholders across healthcare, industry, and academia in both high-income and low-resource settings. While public and service-user engagement has been encouraged, this has been largely focused on brief consultations and user-testing, and questions remain around the extent to which service-users have been involved in a meaningful way, at all phases of development. This interdisciplinary symposium reflects on how the field has been shaped up to the present, and how social inclusion can be placed at the centre of digital innovations in mental health from here on.
Time | Programme | Speakers & Chair |
2:30-2:40 |
Welcome & Introduction by Centre Directors |
Dr Sarah Marks (Birkbeck) Dr Ritsuko Kakuma (LSHTM) |
2:40-3:40 |
Panel 1: Social Inclusion · Rapid presentations (7 mins each) · Panel discussion & audience Q&A (30 mins) |
Panellists: Dr Dixon Chibanda (LSHTM) Corinne Hendy (NIH Mind Tech) Dr Arlinda Cerga-Pashoja ( LSHTM/ St Mary’s) Dr Ursula Read (Warwick) Chair: Dr Dan Robotham (McPin Foundation) |
3:40-3:55 | Break | |
3:55-4:55 | Panel 2: Person Centered Innovations & the Therapeutic Relationship · Rapid presentations (7 mins each) · Panel discussion & audience Q&A (30 mins) |
Panellists: Asmae Doukani (LSHTM) Dr Sarah Markham (KCL) Dr Hannah Zeavin (Indiana) TBC (Inuka Coaching) Chair: Dr Sarah Marks (Birkbeck) |
4:55-5:10 |
Break | |
5:10-6:10 |
Panel 3: Envisioning the Future of DMHIs · Rapid presentations (7 mins each) · Panel discussion & audience Q&A (30 mins) |
Panellists: Dr Becky Inkster (University of Cambridge) Pattie Gonsalves (University of Sussex) Cesar Escobar-Viera (University of Pittsburgh) Demi Fortson (Mendü) Jasmin Pierre (The Safe Space) Chair: Asmae Doukani (LSHTM) |
6:10-6:15 | Closing remarks | Asmae Doukani (LSHTM) |