DGC Director Nelson Freimer, Co-Director Michelle Craske, and DGC-affiliated faculty Loes Olde Loohuis will be presenting as keynotes and panelist at the 4th annual Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Symposium on Precision Mental Health in Los Angeles and Beyond, hosted by the UCLA Institute for Precision Health on January 23, 2026.

UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Co-Director Michelle Craske, PhD, spoke on an expert panel about mental health research on May 2, 2024, on Capitol Hill.

UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Executive Director Michelle Popowitz co-led a three-hour workshop at the 2023 NORDP ReCON: ForwaRD! national conference this month. The workshop, “Leveraging Campus-Scale Initiatives to Advance RD Goals: The Case Study of Grand Challenges,” featured thought leaders who had been the first to lead campus-wide grand challenge-type programs at their universities.

The UCLA Alumni Association spotlighted the Depression Grand Challenge at its May Town Hall providing a strategic focus overview and update of the campuswide initiative and insights from the program to the alumni community.

The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge hosted a speed-ideation session at the university’s 2023 Bar Raiser Summit: DISRUPTx, a full-day professional development workshop for communications professionals across the campus.

UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Co-Director Michelle Craske (psychology and psychiatry professor) was a featured speaker at a virtually streamed Scientific Symposium presented by One Mind on September 12, 2020. One Mind’s 26th Music Festival for Brain Health celebrated groundbreaking ideas, brain health and community with a virtually streamed concert and Scientific Symposium.

Nelson Freimer, UCLA Depression Grand Challenge director, appeared on KTVU San Francisco to discuss the DGC’s pilot research project in collaboration with Apple.

UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Co-Director Michelle Craske talked with “UCLA Health Zone Show” co-hosts Dr. Phil Cohen and Adam Auslund on May 23, 2020.

UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Co-Director Michelle Craske (psychology and psychiatry professor) joined Cleveland Cavaliers star and former UCLA standout Kevin Love for a conversation about mindfulness during an Instagram Live timed to coincide with Mental Health Month on May 15, 2020.