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.
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Lead Applicant
Organisation · Country
Project Title
Project Links
Antonio Pardiñas
Cardiff University · United Kingdom
 SYLFAEN-PSY : SYmptom Learning through Foundation models to Augment and ENhance measurement in PSYchosis
  • Group website (Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics):  https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/centre-neuropsychiatric-genetics-genomics 
  • Group website (Cardiff NLP):  https://cardiffnlp.github.io/ 
  • Huggingface site (Cardiff NLP):  https://huggingface.co/cardiffnlp 
  •  https://x.com/CNGGcardiff ,  https://x.com/Cardiff_NLP 
Christine Wasanga
Shamiri Institute · Kenya
 ShamiriAI – Scalable, Culturally-Informed AI for Fidelity Feedback and Adaptive Training in Youth Mental Health
  •  http://shamiri.co 
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
  •  https://srhin.org 
  • LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/slum-and-rural-health-initiative-network 
  • X:  https://twitter.com/SRHINAfrica 
  • Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/srhinafrica 
  • Facebook:  https://web.facebook.com/srhinAfrica 
Isabelle Scott
University of Melbourne · Australia
 AI4You(th) : Advancing Generative AI for Personalised and Collaborative Youth Mental Health Care
  •  https://www.most.org.au/ 
Jacqui Gratton
Freedom from Torture · United Kingdom
 HAI-Team : Human–AI Teaming Therapeutic Companion for Torture Survivors with PTSD
  •  Freedom from Torture | Supporting Torture Survivors & Refugees 
Joao Sedoc
New York University · United States
 STELLAR  – Steering-Vector Enhanced LLM Agents for Realistic Digital Twins in Mental Health
  •  https://stellar.stern.nyu.edu/ 
Julia R Pozuelo / Vikram Patel
Harvard University · United States
Bridging the Treatment Gap with AI-Enhanced Supervision ( BRIDGE-AI )
  • Mental Health for All Lab:  https://mentalhealthforalllab.hms.harvard.edu/ 
  • Sangath:  https://sangath.in/ 

Lauren White
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia · United States
 RAISE-AI : Generative AI for Identifying Mechanisms and Intervention Points in the Intergenerational Transmission of Anxiety
  •  https://www.thekindlab.org/ 
  •  https://upennedenlab.com/ 
Lekhansh Shukla
National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences · India
Human-in-the-loop Evaluation of Assisted Depression Screening ( HEADS )
  •  https://heads-ai.com/ 
  • LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/human-in-the-loop-evaluation-of-assisted-depression-screening-heads-0a552b389/ 
  • X:  https://x.com/HEADS_AI 
Lydia Sequeira
Kids Help Phone · Canada
 Kids Help Phone  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 for Para-Counsellors  in Low-Resource Mental Health Settings
  •  https://ai4gmh.cs.toronto.edu 
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
  •  https://www.linkedin.com/company/african-population-and-health-research-center/