Thanks for putting this together. It might be a substantially bigger lift, but I’d also be interested to see a list of major academic labs or researchers working in the mental health space that seem highly relevant for scalably improving mental health e.g., researchers looking at plausibly scalable mental health interventions in low income countries, and low cost digital mental health interventions. Naturally this would be somewhat more subjective, but could be a rough crowdsourced list that you curate/trim depending on your judgments, if you were open to doing something like that.
I say this because I sometimes get the sense that some people in EA believe there is very little research in this area besides what these known EA-related orgs are doing, but there is quite a lot of relevant research out there from which ideas and data could be drawn.
As an example of the type of researcher who might go on such a list—Claudi Bockting https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=agorRp4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao (who has as a major research focus “Increasing accessibility of effective psychological interventions in low and middle income countries using technology and/or non-specialists”).
Vikram Patel and Shekhar Saxena are pretty prolific researchers in this space too. Both are relatively easy to contact—I reached out to both and both got back to me pretty quickly
Thanks for putting this together. It might be a substantially bigger lift, but I’d also be interested to see a list of major academic labs or researchers working in the mental health space that seem highly relevant for scalably improving mental health e.g., researchers looking at plausibly scalable mental health interventions in low income countries, and low cost digital mental health interventions. Naturally this would be somewhat more subjective, but could be a rough crowdsourced list that you curate/trim depending on your judgments, if you were open to doing something like that.
I say this because I sometimes get the sense that some people in EA believe there is very little research in this area besides what these known EA-related orgs are doing, but there is quite a lot of relevant research out there from which ideas and data could be drawn.
As an example of the type of researcher who might go on such a list—Claudi Bockting https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=agorRp4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao (who has as a major research focus “Increasing accessibility of effective psychological interventions in low and middle income countries using technology and/or non-specialists”).
Vikram Patel and Shekhar Saxena are pretty prolific researchers in this space too. Both are relatively easy to contact—I reached out to both and both got back to me pretty quickly