In an Oct. 24, 2025, segment of CBS News Los Angeles, the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge’s STAND system of care was highlighted as an innovative example of digital mental health programs tailored to college students.
A preprint protocol article describing the design and implementation of the landmark Digital Mental Health Study was posted on medRxiv on Oct. 1, 2025 and has been submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Senior authors of this protocol article from UCLA include Nelson Freimer, MD, UCLA Depression Grand Challenge director and DMHS principal investigator; Michelle Craske, PhD, DGC co-director.
A review by UCLA Depression Grand Challenge researchers, published in Neuropsychopharmacology on Aug. 29, 2025, summarizes the increasing need for effective mental health resources for young adults and positions the STAND system of care as a model of a scalable, tailored intervention that can close gaps in care for college student populations.
The Digital Health Measurement Collaborative Community (DATAcc) by the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), in which Depression Grand Challenge team members participated, released a report on Feb. 4, 2025, detailing evidence-based, actionable recommendations to drive interest, investment, and direction for sensor-based digital health technology research and innovation.
A study protocol article on the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge’s New Moms Mood Tracking & Wellbeing study was published in the journal Trials on Aug. 8, 2024. Kate Wolitzky-Taylor, PhD, is lead author; several additional DGC-affiliated researchers received authorship credit, including senior author Michelle Craske, PhD.
The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge is piloting a new platform for delivering STAND content with its rollout of the STAND Wellness Resource on July 15, 2024. The new public resource features Tier 1/Wellness content from the STAND content library and is hosted on the MyDataHelps app.
