Apr 3, 2018
The April 2018 podcast features Professor Helen Christensen, Director and Chief Scientist at the Black Dog Institute, a prominent Australian Non-Government Organisation dedicated to the identification, prevention, and treatment of mental illness. Professor Christensen leads the Digital Dog team, which is developing youth-friendly methods for early detection and treatment of mental illness. In the podcast the Black Dog’s innovative approach to health care delivery and ambitious research leveraging social networks, wearable technology, and big data to predict and prevent mental illness and suicide, are discussed.