Funded teams & projects

Funded teams & projects

The funded cohort brings together 14 interdisciplinary teams from around the world working across anxiety, depression and psychosis. Projects span digital mental health, clinical decision support, conversational AI, implementation science, evaluation, measurement, and culturally adapted interventions.
Together, the cohort represents a diverse portfolio of approaches aimed at advancing the responsible development and application of generative AI in mental health.
Lead Applicant
Organisation
Country
Project Title
Antonio Pardiñas
Cardiff University
United Kingdom
SYLFAEN-PSY: SYmptom Learning through Foundation models to Augment and ENhance measurement in PSYchosis
Christine Wasanga
Shamiri Institute
Kenya
shamiriAI – Scalable, Culturally-Informed AI for Fidelity Feedback and Adaptive Training in Youth Mental Health
Dominic Oliver
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
ARIADNE: ARtificial Intelligence-based Assessment to Detect iNdividuals with Emerging psychosis risk
Eric Storch
Baylor College of Medicine
United States
AURORA: Adaptive Understanding through Real-time Observation, Reporting, and Assistance
Isaac Olufadewa
Slum and Rural Health Initiative
Nigeria
GENSCORE Project: Leveraging Generative AI to adapt and enhance the scoring of widely used mental health assessment tools in low-resource context
Isabelle Scott
University of Melbourne
Australia
AI4You(th): Advancing Generative AI for Personalised and Collaborative Youth Mental Health Care
Jacqui Gratton
Freedom from Torture
United Kingdom
HAI-Team: Human–AI Teaming Therapeutic Companion for Torture Survivors with PTSD
Joao Sedoc
New York University
United States
STELLAR – Steering-Vector Enhanced LLM Agents for Realistic Digital Twins in Mental Health
Julia R Pozuelo / Vikram Patel
Harvard University
United States
Bridging the Treatment Gap with AI-Enhanced Supervision (BRIDGE-AI)
Lauren White
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
United States
Generative AI for Identifying Mechanisms and Intervention Points in the Intergenerational Transmission of Anxiety
Lekhansh Shukla
National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences
India
Human-in-the-loop Evaluation of Assisted Depression Screening (HEADS)
Lydia Sequeira
Kids Help Phone
Canada
Generative AI for Simulated Conversations: Preparing Frontline Workers and Volunteers to Support Youth with Anxiety and Depression
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
University of Toronto
Canada
Culturally Aligned Generative AI to Support Para-Counselors in Low-Resource Mental Health Settings
Tatenda Kavu
African Population & Health Research Centre
Kenya
FarajaMH: Culturally Adapted Generative AI Model for Mental Health Screening in Kenya and Tanzania; Leveraging Longitudinal Data, Clinical Notes and Conversational Chats