QBS150: Digital Mental Health
Digital mental health blends technology with mental healthcare and behavioral science, offering a wide range of interdisciplinary career opportunities for psychologists, data scientists, neuroscientists, computer scientists, engineers, policy experts, and beyond. This course will provide Dartmouth graduate students with opportunities to think critically about the state-of-the-science in digital mental health. Students will also have opportunities to engage with academic and industry leaders in the digital mental health field. By the end of the course, students will be able to: 1) Define major mental disorders using DSM-5 criteria; 2) Identify opportunities and challenges associated with integrating digital technologies into mental health care; 3) Evaluate whether digital mental health tools are evidence-based, ethical, and fair; and 4) Identify promising directions for future innovation.
Students will also have opportunities to engage with leading experts in the digital mental health field, including:
- Beth Darnall, PhD; Chief Science Advisor at AppliedVR and Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine
- Emily Lattie, PhD; Director of Clinical Product at Lyra Health
- Russell DuBois, PhD; Vice President, Clinical Quality & Innovation at BetterHelp
- Caitlin Stamatis, PhD; Head of Research at Ash
- Lynn Fiellin, MD; Founder of Playbl, Inc. and Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Dartmouth
- Vaile Wright, PhD; Senior Director of the Office of Health Care Innovation at the American Psychological Association
QBS150 is offered Winter 2026. For more information, contact Dr. Frumkin (madelyn.r.frumkin@dartmouth.edu).
Past Workshops:
Society for NeuroEconomics Daily Life Sampling Workshop (June 2025). Materials: https://github.com/jlcrawford/SRNDNA_DLS_Workshop