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Read the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge 2025 Year in Review

The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge’s 2025 Year in Review, was shared with newsletter subscribers by DGC Director Nelson Freimer, MD on Dec. 24, 2025. Freimer’s message celebrated ten years of the DGC’s mission to cut the burden of depression on human health and well-being in half by 2050, and overviewed updates on the following:

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A collage of 8 UCLA affiliated staff & faculty members.
UCLA Depression Grand Challenge forms Social Justice Advisory Committee
The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge has established an advisory committee to help ensure its programs and decisions promote social justice and anti-racism. The inaugural DGC Social Justice Advisory Committee includes: Jeanne Miranda, chair, Gaby Aguilera, Denise Chavira, Nicole Green, Stan Huey, Tamar Kodish, Isabelle Lanser and Anna Lau.
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UCLA Depression Grand Challenge in New York Magazine
The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge is the focus of a sponsored article in the April 2018 issue of New York Magazine. The article features detail about the approach to solving depression. This interconnected approach towards cutting the burden of depression in half by 2050 will change the scope of how society approaches problems of our time.
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