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Grand Challenge 5

Grand Challenge 5

How do we make high-quality cognitive and mental health support available to all?

More than one-third of the nearly 1.3 million adults in Washington state with a mental health condition in 2023 did not receive the care they needed — a situation that is repeated in communities across the country and around the world.

Cost and a shortage of behavioral health providers are two of the factors that prevent people from accessing mental health treatment. Allen School researchers are working with clinicians and community partners to explore how technology can be used to massively improve access to and quality of cognitive and mental health support for all.


Selected Projects

Ashish Sharma, Inna Lin, Adam Miner, David Atkins, Tim Althoff. World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2021

Xuhai Xu, Xin Liu, Han Zhang, Weichen Wang, Subgiya Nepal, Kevin S. Kuehn, Jeremy Huckins, Margaret E. Morris, Paula S. Nurius, Eve A. Riskin, Shwetak Patel, Tim Althoff, Andrew Campell, Anind K. Dey, Jennifer C. Mankoff. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2022

Ashish Sharma, Kevin Rushton, Inna Lin, David Wadden, Khendra Lucas, Adam Miner, Theresa Nguyen, Tim Althoff. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 2023

Qisheng Li, Josephine Lee, Christina Zhang, Katharina Reinecke
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’21), 2021

Inna Wanyin Lin, Lucille Njoo, Anjalie Field, Ashish Sharma, Katharina Reinecke, Tim Althoff, Yulia Tsvetkov
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022