CBITs worked with @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social computer science students to partner on an emerging research project coming out of CBITs. The students did an INCREDIBLE job understanding and expanding the capabilities of DRIVEN. 💜 Thank you to Kristian Hammond, PhD for leading the class!

CBITs is NOW accepting applications for The Future of Digital Mental Health Rising Star Award. Nominations are due by Friday, January 30, 2026 at 5pm! 📆🌟 Click below to read the full story and learn more about the Rising Star Award: cbits.northwestern.edu/about/_news-...

Congratulations to CBITs Co-Director Andrea Graham, PhD, the trial coordinators, and the ACT Lab Team for wrapping up enrollment on the micro-randomized clinical trial testing FoodSteps, a digital intervention for binge eating disorder treatment! 🤩🎉

This American Girl Doll comes with a never-ending supply of coffee, bleary eyes from reading research papers on #digitalmentalhealth, and a passion for improving lives through technology! At CBITs, we are proud of our Modern American Girls (boys, NBs, & all the dolls!) 💜

We are so excited to announce, we have LAUNCHED the OFFICIAL CBITs Instagram! At CBITs, we are used to encountering tech challenges…let's just say our last few attempts at Instagram were early prototypes 🫣😂 But we're BACK—follow us now for a look behind-the-scenes ✨ www.instagram.com/cbits_nu/

You could be the recipient of CBITs Inaugural Future of Digital Mental Health Rising Star Award! This award includes the opportunity to present at CBITs' final webinar for the academic year! Applications are NOW OPEN 🌠: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...

CBITs’ 2026 Design for Digital Health Reading Course is open for free registration! 👨‍🏫👩‍🏫 Held by HCD Experts Andrew Berry, PhD & Kaylee Kruzan, PhD 📖 Read expert-chosen articles & conference proceedings 🏅Earn a certificate 1/14 - 4/22 @ 12pm CT on Zoom cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...

Don’t miss out: 3/10: The Future of Implementation Science and AI in Digital Mental Health with Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, PhD 5/19: The Future of Digital Mental Health Investigators with YOU! (Learn more: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...) Register now: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thank you to Clare Purvis, PsyD for her incredible presentation, “The Future of Clinician-Led Ventures and Digital Mental Health” for our second webinar of the “The Future of” series! 🎉🤩 Check out the Recording here: youtu.be/_jlMa-25Pe8 ✨

🚨Tomorrow, Tuesday, December 2 @ 12:00PM CT CBITs will be hosting our “The Future of” Webinar Series with Clare Purvis, PsyD! 🚨 You won't want to miss this, so register now to gain access to all “The Future of” Webinar Series 2025-26 sessions: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CBITs is seeking applicants for our NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship to begin July 2026! Check out some of the incredible mentors you can work with and their research interests. Apps will be reviewed early December 2025! Interested? Learn more and apply: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...

🚨 We are officially one week away from our “The Future of Clinician-Led Ventures and Digital Mental Health” Webinar Series with Clare Purvis, PsyD! 🚨  Check out this video for an exclusive preview! December 2 @ 12:00PM CT Join us! | Register now: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CBITs is seeking applicants for our NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship to begin July 2026! Applications will be reviewed starting December 2025! Be on the lookout for our next post highlighting the remaining faculty hoping to recruit a T32 fellow. Learn more: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...

“The Future of” Webinar Series with Clare Purvis, Psy.D. is coming up on December 2 at 12pm CT! ✅ Learn a practical framework for understanding why few behavioral health technologies scale ✅ Apply a hands-on evaluation framework Excited? Register now: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CBITs webinar on "The Future of Industry and Digital Mental Health" with Clare Purvis, Psy.D., will be taking place on December 2nd at 12pm CT! 🎉 Register now: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CBITs is seeking applicants for our NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship to begin July 2026 🌟 Star-studded mentorship 💻 Training in mental health and human computer interaction (HCI) ✏️ Opportunities to lead projects with multidisciplinary teams Learn more: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...

With gratitude, we share the news that CBITs’ founder, @davidcmohr.bsky.social, PhD, will step down as CBITs Director. Over the past 14 years, he has advanced digital mental health through his research and leadership. Thank you, David! 💜 Read more: www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/ipham/...

Adjusting to the end of daylight savings time can be a process and you may feel sleepier than normal today. Luckily, CBITs has mental health tips and tricks to help make the time change a little bit easier (a thread):

When we aren't developing innovative digital mental health research, CBITs can be found sharing delicious food and completing word searches of spooky things! We might not fear ghosts, but an app glitching causes spooky terror 👻 Wishing everyone a happy Halloween! Stay safe and have fun tonight 🎃💜

CBITs rockstar and Clinical Psychology PhD student @ariellesmith.bsky.social was recently featured in @nufeinbergmed.bsky.social's newsletter! 💜 📖 Read all about Arielle and her research on single session interventions here: www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/research/abo...

🚨🚨 Reminder to check out @jonahjmeyerhoff.bsky.social's free virtual seminar on Friday at 1pm EDT / 12pm CDT!

CBITs is back for “The Future of Industry and Digital Mental Health,” where Clare Purvis, PsyD, will share her work leading project teams to create programs supporting behavior change and founding her company, WELL. December 2 @ 12:00 PM CT on Zoom Join us: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Attention #Postdoc researchers and #PhDAward candidates: CBITs is seeking applicants for our NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship to begin July 2026 with training in both mental health and human computer interaction Apps will be reviewed December 2025! Learn more: cbits.northwestern.edu/education-an...

🌟We’re proud to spotlight Kaylee Kruzan, PhD, CBITs Core Faculty, for her dedication to researching theory-driven digital treatments for adolescents and young adults with self-injurious thoughts and behaviors! Check out more: cbits.northwestern.edu

@jonahjmeyerhoff.bsky.social will lead a free virtual seminar on co-designing digital mental health interventions for young adults with suicidal thoughts and behaviors on: 📆 Friday, October 31st at 1pm EDT/ 12pm CDT. Check out the CPP's website for more info: www.massgeneral.org/psychiatry/r...

All of the 👏 for CBITs RC Sarah Popowski for publishing her first first-author manuscript: "Designing Digital Mental Health Tools to Support the Needs of Black Adults in the United States: Qualitative Analysis" in JMIR Formative Research! 📖 Read more: formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e73279/

We are excited to announce that CBIT's Core Faculty @ashleyaknapp.bsky.social, PhD, has been elected as the Community Engagement Chair of the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC)! Her role will be to pursue new connections and collaborations. Way to go 🥳

We’re wrapping up CBITs Partnership Week with a tech-powered health care double-header! CBITs helped adapt Ksana Health’s Vira platform, and teamed up with @rushmedical.bsky.social to study its impact on 130 Chicagoans with anxiety/depression Read more bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Today’s CBITs Partnership Week spotlight: Inspiration at Work! Together, we’re building DRIVEN—a 6-week CBT-based app to help unemployed individuals with depression regain motivation and seek work. 💜 Learn how CBITs powers practical mental health tools: cbits.northwestern.edu/about/_news-...

Thanks to a partnership with LSMH, Montana Pediatrics, Frontier Psychiatry, and Koko, Montana will be the first state to offer single-session digital mental health tools statewide with Project Yes. 💜 Learn how government + CBITs can drive change: www.mss.northwestern.edu/about/storie...

Today we’re spotlighting our work with @mhanational.org, whose digital reach helped launch Small Steps, Plan-Safe, and Coping Compass—tools supporting mental health at scale. 🥳✨ Learn more & explore partnerships: cbits.northwestern.edu/about/_news-...

Got an idea? Partner with us!

It’s CBITs Partnership Week! We’re launching a new pathway to connect with partners in academia, nonprofit, government, tech, and healthcare, expanding our reach...(pretty relevant given it's Mental Illness Awareness Week #MIAW) Read all about it: cbits.northwestern.edu/about/_news-...

🌟 Celebrating 5 Years of Olga Barnas @ CBITS!💫 We’re thrilled to spotlight one of our incredible team members, Olga Barnas, whose dedication has shaped studies, streamlined operations, and strengthened our center. Thank you for being the backbone of so many projects!

We're celebrating NU's newest powerhouse: the Institute for Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being! They're amplifying research that addresses adolescent health with innovative solutions — and look who they found! 😉 CBITs Co-Director Andrea Graham: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...

It's tomorrow! @rachelkornfield.bsky.social will present for the C-DIAS PSMG Grand Rounds tomorrow on Small Steps SMS, her groundbreaking work using an automated text-messaging support intervention for self-management of depression and anxiety. Learn more: cepim.northwestern.edu/calendar-eve...

📅 Join us on Tuesday, September 30 for a presentation by Rachel Kornfield from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine as she explores how machine learning can be used to deliver text message-based mental health support. shorturl.at/Azrj9 #BehavioralHealth #AI #CDIAS #PSMG

Wooohooo go @rachelkornfield.bsky.social !

Proud to be part of the @jonahjmeyerhoff.bsky.social's team making this system a reality! #ConversationalAgents #SuicidePrevention #TextMessaging #MentalHealth

Go Rachel Kornfield, PhD! @rachelkornfield.bsky.social will be presenting at PSMG's Grand Rounds Tues. 9/30 @ 12 PM CST, where she'll discuss how her team is leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence within Small Steps SMS, an automated text messaging program for depression/anxiety

It’s fun work. I’m lucky to be able to do it w/such amazing ppl: Sarah Popowski, Emily Tack, Tanvi Lakhtakia, Crystal Quan, Jack Svoboda, Theresa Nguyen, Kevin Rushton, Charlie Krause, Rachel Kornfield, @davidcmohr.bsky.social, Madhu Reddy, Rachel Kornfield, @kimvo.bsky.social & @cjkarr.bsky.social

To close out Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, we want to highlight CBITs Director of Digital Services, Dr. Jessica Schleider 💜 She hopes to address the heightened risk of suicide risk in queer youth by personalizing safety plans. Read more here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As National Suicide Prevention Month concludes, we want to highlight Dr. Jonah Meyerhoff who has led multiple research trials on suicide prevention. 💜 He established a 4-week intervention, PlanSafe, to create personalized safety plans. Read more here: formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e69602/

🚨New paper alert from Team CBITs: “Designing Digital Mental Health Interventions to Meet the Needs of Older Adolescents: Qualitative Interview and Group Discussion Study” in JMIR Formative Research! 📖 Check it out: formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e68950

Huge thank you to Dr. Nick Jacobson for his insightful presentation, “Therabot: Over 6 Years Developing and Evaluating the First Generative AI Psychotherapy Chatbot.” 🎉 You can watch the full recording now on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/7FoyGVnGoQA%...

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Today is #988Day. The 988 Lifeline provides anyone in emotional distress with support at any time — day or night. Call, text, or chat 988 to get the support you need. #SuicidePrevention

📅 Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 9 🕛 12:00–1:00 PM CT 📍 Zoom CBITs will kicking off our “The Future of” Webinar Series with Nick Jacobson, PhD, who will discuss The Future of AI in Digital Mental Health! If you haven't yet, register now: lnkd.in/gvVaU7Fh

Congratulations to Leah Parsons who will be leaving CBITs to pursue a Masters of Sport and Exercise Psychology at Loughborough University! 🎉 We’re all so incredibly proud of you, Leah! Wishing you all the best as you take this exciting next step 💜