Launch of I-DAIR’s Global Research Map of Mental Health and Wellbeing
On World Mental Health Day, you are cordially invited to join us for the launch of the Mental Health and Wellbeing (MH&W) edition of I-DAIR's Global Research Map (GRM).
The event will include a demonstration of the worldwide Mental Health research mapping, the data visualization tool, and the analytics report generated by the usage of natural language processing (NLP) and topics modeling techniques. We will then showcase our findings, including the research areas that have been boosted by COVID-19, the current dynamicity of the topics, the gaps across the Mental Health care spectrum, and the share of digital health applications in MH&W studies.
This demonstration will be followed by a panel of experts who will discuss the results, opportunities, challenges, and actions that should be implemented to retain the momentum for the application of digital health interventions for improved MH&W.
Panel: Beyond the pandemic, how to sustain the research in Digital and AI for Mental Health & Wellbeing?
Panelists:
Moderator: Yi-Roe Tan, Research Implementation Coordinator, I-DAIR, Singapore
Aline Cossy-Gantner, Chief Development Officer, Fondation Botnar, Switzerland
Agnes Kiragga, head of the Data Science Program, African Population Health Research Center, Kenya
Tejveer Singh, IAS, Principal Secretary for Departments of Governance Reforms & Public Grievances, Power, and Tourism and Cultural Affairs, Government of Punjab, India
Steven Dodsworth, CEO, Digital Health Virtual Network, UK
Khaled Ghedira, Scientific director, UIK, Tunisia
About the GRM of Mental Health and Wellbeing
Three years after the start of COVID-19, data indicates that the pandemic has propelled Mental Health and Wellbeing (MH&W) into a global public health issue, which has led to new research avenues while calling attention to existing problems.
To illustrate the impact of COVID-19 on MH&W, I-DAIR has built a Global Research Map (GRM) based on comprehensive and comparative research activities of MH&W around the globe since 2015 and conducted a detailed analysis of emerging trends in new areas of research and digital interventions for MH&W that appeared with the pandemic.
A total number of 2.5 million scientific publications are included in our mapping. The data captured provides a statistical mapping of the impact that various factors like COVID-19 have had on MH&W and the practices and solutions that have been successfully adopted. The entire publications dataset along with the specific semantic search tools will be made available as a public digital good to the global scientific community.
We have selected publications from 2015 to 2022 to compare research subjects and trends before and after COVID-19. The results show a clear acceleration, between 2020 and 2021, of the adoption of digital and AI-based solutions to overcome some of MH&W challenges.
However, since 2022, we have observed a slow decrease in these trends among research subjects. It is clear that there is a need for immediate global and collaborative actions to sustain such development and to build on the progress obtained in new research subjects that have been unveiled by the pandemic.
Join us next Monday, 10 October at 4:00 p.m. (CEST) and be part of the conversation by registering here.
