17th November 2022, 2.30-5pm

Innovation and Inclusion in Digital Mental Health

Join webinar: https://lshtm.zoom.us/j/92154278123

The use of digital technologies in mental health treatment is a rapidly growing and complex field, with stakeholders across healthcare, industry, and academia in both high-income and low-resource settings. While public and service-user engagement has been encouraged, this has been largely focused on brief consultations and user-testing, and questions remain around the extent to which service-users have been involved in a meaningful way, at all phases of development. This interdisciplinary symposium reflects on how the field has been shaped up to the present, and how social inclusion can be placed at the centre of digital innovations in mental health from here on.

Time	Programme	Speakers & Chair
2:30- 2:40	Welcome & Introduction by Centre Directors	Dr Sarah Marks (Birkbeck) Dr Ritsuko Kakuma (LSHTM)
2:40- 3:25	Panel 1: Social Inclusion	Panellists: Dr Dixon Chibanda (LSHTM) Dr Arlinda Cerga Pashoja (St Mary’s University) Dr Ursula Read (Warwick) Chair: Dr Dan Robotham (McPin Foundation)

3:25- 4:10	Panel 2: Person Centered Innovations & the Therapeutic Relationship	Panellists: Dr Sarah Markham (KCL) Dr Hannah Zeavin (Indiana) Asmae Doukani (LSHTM) Chair: Dr Sarah Marks (Birkbeck)

4:10– 5:10	Panel 3: Envisioning the Future of Digital Mental Health Innovations	Panellists: Dr Becky Inkster Pattie Gonsalves (University of Sussex) Cesar Escobar-Viera (University of Pittsburgh) Demi Fortson (Mendü) Jasmin Pierre (The Safe Place app) Chair: Asmae Doukani (LSHTM)
5:10– 5:15	Closing remarks	Asmae Doukani (LSHTM)