Using digital tools to reduce substance use and improve mental health among young people

Monday, October 17, 2022

Noon 1 p.m. PT

Social Sciences Bulding (SOS), B49 (Basement Level)


Please join Dr. Danielle Ramo, the chief clinical officer at BeMe Health and an adjunct associate professor of psychiatry at UC San Francisco as a part of a distinguished speaker series. 

Dr. Ramo’s talk will cover her body of work around teen and young adult substance use, mental health and technology. She will review her program of research at UC San Francisco using social media to understand and intervene with young adults who smoke and engage in heavy drinking, and tailoring intervention to LGBTQ+ youth. She will then share technology-based interventions designed with the social innovation lab Hopelab including a quit vaping intervention for teens on Instagram, a mental health app for LGBTQ+ teens and an app to address the high rate of loneliness in college students. Finally, Dr. Ramo will share her current focus at the mental health startup BeMe Health that has built an app-based platform to support teen mental health. Themes will include the importance of co-creation with teens, using unique data analytic strategies that technologically-based interventions afford and innovation in measuring impact in digital interventions.

This even is hosted by the USC Institute for Addiction Science.

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