Depression Grand Challenge

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.

In response to the enormous and immediate need for support during COVID-19, UCLA partnered with Beyoncé’s BeyGOOD initiative and Jack Dorsey’s Start Small fund to create an online COVID-19 Care Package.

Michelle Craske, PhD (psychology and psychiatry professor at UCLA and member of the Executive Committee of the Depression Grand Challenge) was the 128th recipient of the UCLA Academic Senate’s Faculty Research Lectureship for the 2019-2020 academic year. 

The DGC is recruiting approximately 200 people into the STAND coaching program. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, all training sessions are to be conducted remotely.

In 2019, after collecting a great deal of feedback about and experience with the initial implementation of the STAND system of care with the UCLA student body, the DGC secured funding from our generous donors to reimagine the way we would deliver cognitive behavioral strategies to participants leveraging technology. Funding was designated for both the delivery mechanism, which we refer to as the STAND platform, and for the content.

Michelle Craske (psychology and psychiatry professor at UCLA and member of the Executive Committee of the Depression Grand Challenge) joined Cleveland Cavaliers basketball player and former UCLA standout Kevin Love on the Today Show with Hoda Kotb on March 18, 2020.

Michelle Craske, Depression Grand Challenge Executive Committee member, met with Kevin Love, Cleveland Cavaliers star and former UCLA standout, for a discussion on mental health awareness on the eve of World Mental Health Day.

Discover Magazine’s Nov. 2019 issue highlighted the Depression Grand Challenge’s efforts to understand the genetic and environmental causes of depression, and mentioned the STAND system of care.

UCLA was among the campuses cited for its recognition of the need to deliver better and faster services to campus communities with the Depression Grand Challenge’s Screening and Treatment for Anxiety and Depression system of care.