Simon Glenister

Simon Glenister

In 2009 I founded the social enterprise Noise Solution to use music technology for social impact. In 2019 it was named one of the UK's top performing social enterprises (Natwest SE100).

Timothy Hill

Timothy Hill

Timothy Hill has a long-standing research interest in alternative approaches to and understandings of mental health, ranging from his 2004 doctoral work on ancient Roman suicide and concepts of the self through to developing software to support new teaching methods for counsellors and psychologists. Currently he works at the Open Data Institute, helping to develop open ecosystems to support information-sharing in the sport and health sectors.

Hsuan-Ying Huang

Hsuan-Ying Huang

Hsuan-Ying Huang is a medical anthropologist with a geographical focus on China and prior training in psychiatry and psychotherapy. Prior to studying medical anthropology at Harvard University, he received medical education and psychiatric training at the National Taiwan University.

Alina Ivan

Alina Ivan

Alina works in the Department of Psychological Medicine in at King’s College London. She works on the RADAR-CNS major depression disorder study to facilitate recruitment and participant support, as well as to monitor data coming from study devices.

Kumar Jacob

Kumar Jacob

Kumar is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mindwave Ventures, a technology company that develops digital products and services that have a positive impact on people. Kumar has an extensive background in healthcare, having sat on the board of South London and Maudsley and worked with a number of mental health charities.

Ann John

Ann John

Ann is a Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry at Swansea University and Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Public Health Wales. She has a research focus on suicide and self-harm prevention and children and young people’s mental health.

Megan Lam

Megan Lam

Meg is CEO and Co-Founder at Neurum Ltd. She is excited about meaningful changes in how healthcare is accessed and delivered - accounting for different social, cultural, and economic contexts. Particularly, the applications and feasibility of digital health solutions in East Asia.

Yolanda Lannquist

Yolanda Lannquist

Yolanda is an AI Policy & Ethics Researcher at The AI Initiative of The Future Society, a think-and-do-tank incubated at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her research focuses on governance and policy to shape the rise of AI to benefit society broadly while mitigating societal risks, including algorithmic bias, fairness, inclusion, privacy, security, safety, and impact on employment and inequality. 

Maria Liakata

Maria Liakata

Maria has a DPhil from the University of Oxford on learning pragmatic knowledge from text and her research interests include text mining, natural language processing (NLP), related social and biomedical applications, analysis of multi-modal and heterogeneous data (text from various sources such as social media, sensor data, images) and biological text mining.

Cara Lisette

Cara Lisette

I’m Cara. I’m a twentysomething year old mental health nurse who has also experienced mental illness for most of my life. I’m incredibly passionate about breaking down stigma and fighting the discrimination attached to mental health problems, and I hope to do that by not only sharing my own experiences, but creating a platform for others to share theirs too.

Alex Little

Alex Little

Alex is a web developer specialising in educational technology for low resource environments. Alex is a co-founder and the lead developer for Digital Campus's OppiaMobile learning platform and was the lead developer for mPowering's ORB health worker training content repository.

Peggy Loo

Peggy Loo

Peggy is an accountant trained in the PwC & KPMG with experience in Assurance and Transactions. Her current experience is in Commercial Finance.

Andrew MacKenzie

Andrew MacKenzie

Andrew MacKenzie is a director in the Centre for Surveillance and Applied Research at the Public Health Agency of Canada. Andrew's portfolio of surveillance activities include positive mental health, suicide, family violence, injuries and physical activity. Prior to joining the Public Health Agency in early 2018, Andrew spent 18 years managing health and disability surveys at Canada's national statistical agency.

Michael Matania

Michael Matania

Michael’s spent 5 years designing and delivering various frontline programmes for the national mental health charity Mind. Specialising in prevention and mental resilience, he co-created the UK’s biggest peer-led resilience programme, established the Employee Champions professional network for the 'Time to Change' national mental health campaign and was a co-designer of Minds 'Whole School Approach' to Mental Health National Strategy for England & Wales.

Faith Matcham

Faith Matcham

Faith Matcham is a post-doctoral research associate at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. She manages the major depressive disorder work package of the Remote Assessment of Disease and Relapse-Central Nervous System (RADAR-CNS) study, coordinating an international multi-centre prospective cohort study examining the use of digital technology to measure symptoms and predict relapse in people with depression.

Bilal Mateen

Bilal Mateen

Bilal is a clinical-academic at Kings College Hospital (KCH), and a clinical data science fellow at The Alan Turing Institute (the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence). He spends the vast majority of his time coming up with ‘fun’ acronyms for his research.

Matthew Matero

Matthew Matero

Matthew is a Computer Science PhD student at Stony Brook University and has 5 years of experience as a professional software engineer in industry.

Raphaël Mazet

Raphaël Mazet

Raphaël is a social tech entrepreneur at the convergence of the blockchain and impact sectors. He is the CEO of Alice, a startup that leverages decentralised finance to bring transparency to social and environmental ventures. Prior to Alice, he worked for 10 years in advocacy, first as a corporate consultant in Europe and Latin America, before founding his first digital campaigning startup. Raphaël is French and British, and currently living in London.

Glenn Melvin

Glenn Melvin

Glenn is an Associate Professor and practising clinical psychologist at the School of Psychology, Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia and an honorary Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, UK. His research focuses on developing and evaluating novel suicide prevention strategies and treatments for youth depression that range from exercise to brain stimulation.

Yamiko Msosa

Yamiko Msosa

I am a digital health researcher that also has extensive technical and engineering management experience in the digital health landscape. My research interests are in the broader areas of software engineering, and in particular, model-driven engineering as it applies to health information systems engineering. I am particularly interested in how clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) can be formalized and supported in health information systems using model-driven engineering methods.