CTBH partnered with IBM’s Digital Health group to organize the International Conference on Digital Health at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) meeting in Helsinki, Finland on July 8-10, 2025.
As part of this global event, CTBH researchers were invited to host a panel discussion on “Harnessing the Power of AI to Enable Highly Personalized Anytime/Anywhere Mental Health and Substance Use Care”.
This discussion was led by Dr. Lisa Marsch, Director of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (a US National Institute of Health-designated “Center of Excellence” in digital health at Dartmouth College) and included pioneering research and clinical experts in generative AI, behavioral sensing, digital phenotyping, digital therapeutics and human-centered computing for mental health and substance use disorders, Dr. Nicholas Jacobson and Dr. Michael Heinz, and Dr. Varun Mishra.
Mental health and substance use disorders have surged across many parts of the world, while the behavioral healthcare workforce has remained insufficient to meet these population-level needs.
This session highlighted how digital health may be of particular value in providing anytime/anywhere therapeutic support to individuals struggling with these challenges – to help meet our population-level needs.
The session also focused on how advances in AI are revealing new insights into the clinical course of mental health and substance use disorders and enabling highly personalized delivery of digital therapeutics at the time they may be most impactful.