Depression Grand Challenge

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.

More than 50 leading mental health and computer science researchers, industry experts, advocates and funders from six countries came together at UCLA Feb. 28 – Mar. 2, 2023 to collaborate on a shared vision and common goals for digital sensing technologies in mental health research.

The Depression Grand Challenge team served as host of the second semi-annual meeting of researchers involved with the MCPsych program funded by Wellcome Leap from Nov. 3-4, 2022.

The Depression Grand Challenge opened a new research study aimed to measure and track behavioral characteristics of depression and use these measures to predict brain activity, as measured by MRI scans.

Beginning today, ELAC students who sign up for the STAND at ELAC program have the option of enrolling in the STAND at ELAC research studies and earning up to $275 for their participation.

The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health awarded the Depression Grand Challenge another year of funding as part of the DMH+UCLA Public Partnership for Wellbeing.

On May 16, 2022, Vice Chancellor Monroe Gorden and CAPS Director Nicole Green announced the opening of the Stress and Resilience or “STAR” Program.

The UCLA Depression Grand Challenge was awarded a five-year, $12 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to expand its STAND system of care, with a focus on reaching more California community college students.

In a recent article authored for the April 2022 issue of UCLA Magazine, Chancellor Gene Block spoke to his concern about a “shadow pandemic” of worsened mental health across societies in the two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.