Welcome to the 21st WCP Virtual Congress Program Scheduling

Technology can facilitate measurement-based care and lead to immediate and sustained efficiencies in mental health service delivery, to ultimately, ensure better mental health outcomes for those who need it most. Ian Hickie will highlight the potential for new digital technologies to transform the delivery of health care providing greater personalization, earlier intervention, enhanced monitoring and implementation of measurement-based care. With the support of new technologies, there is a possibility of greater scalability of care, enhanced empowerment of service users and increased capacity to support mental health promotion and illness-prevention. Jo-An Occhipinti will illustrate how systems modelling and simulation can generate new insights that are only possible when we bring together related components (e.g. determinants of mental health, local needs assessments, service barriers & facilitators, evidence-based interventions) with multi-agency data sources and the advanced, quantitative methods of dynamic systems modelling. Using advanced decision analytic tools and methods that sit at the intersection of systems science, data science, population health science and citizen science, this type of research can deliver scalable infrastructure to bring a necessary discipline and transparency to decision-making about investments in youth mental health programs and services. Laura Ospina-Pinillos will illustrate the potential for these new technologies to have their major impacts not only in developed economies, but also in Low- and Middle-Income Countries by reducing the treatment gap but also addressing the digital health inequities. Will also exemplify how low-risk technologies can be implemented and scaled up and also illustrate how systems modelling can be adapted into Colombia.