The article profiles former DGC postdoctoral fellow Tamar Kodish, PhD and a pilot project she led examining how text messaging could help address barriers to engaging with the STAND system of care among community college students.
Researchers from the DGC and the UCLA Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics welcomed a delegation from Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council to UCLA for a site visit focused on best practices for interdisciplinary research.
STAND for All, the DGC’s publicly available STAND program, has been upgraded with new content and a new delivery platform. The upgraded program combines STAND content previously offered through multiple STAND implementations and across multiple delivery platforms into a single consolidated public offering.
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The DGC refreshed its LinkedIn page to serve as a destination for updates, insights, and perspectives from across its work to better understand, prevent, and treat depression.
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On June 4, 2026, the Digital Health Measurement Collaborative Community (DATAcc) by the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) released a new core set of digital measures intended to cultivate shared standards for the use of digital sensing in mental health research and care.
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DGC Co-Director Michelle Craske, PhD, was featured in a May 6, 2026, Washington Post article about positive affect treatment, a therapy designed to target anhedonic depression, a severe type of depression.
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DGC-affiliated researcher Kunmi Sobowale, MD, was awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health to support his research on early childhood and parental mental health.
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UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Director Nelson Freimer, MD, was interviewed for a recent GQ article exploring whether mood-tracking wearables can support mental health.
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The DGC has launched a new study portal featuring research studies currently open for recruitment. The portal serves as a centralized hub for visitors to browse active studies, learn more about individual studies, and sign up to get notified of future studies through the UCLA Depression Research Registry.
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UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Executive Director Michelle Popowtiz, JD, MPH, spoke as an invited keynote panelist at the 2026 Mpact Conference, a national convening focused on research partnerships and impact, public impact and American competitiveness.
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