Sage Bionetworks Leads International Feasibility Study to Identify Core Design Components to Build the Global Mental Health Databank with Youth Participants
Summary
This project is funded by the mental health area team at the Wellcome Trust as key infrastructure necessary to enable their work to identify the next generation of treatments and approaches to prevent, intervene, manage and stop relapse of anxiety and depression in young people. “By banking this data, we hope to provide the opportunity to discover which strategies do and do not help them manage their mental health.” The project envisions the databank as a platform that connects participants and researchers interested in studying the effects of contextual determinants, experiences, behaviors, and interventions in a real-world setting. Our interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers work together to provide researchers access to technology tools and scientific approaches to share data, benchmark methods, and explore collective insights, all backed by Sage’s gold-standard governance protocols and commitment to user-centered design. CMHLP works with different stakeholders including service users, mental health professionals, policymakers, civil society organisations and researchers both nationally and internationally with a specific focus on vulnerable and marginalised populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). With a mission to improve the health of the public, UW Medicine educates the next generation of physicians and scientists, leads one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive biomedical research programs, and provides outstanding care to patients from across the globe.