Lessons from Project Synergy: A Guide to E-Mental Health in Canada

E-mental health, which is an emerging field that utilizes technology to improve access to care, has shown strong potentials to address the overwhelming demand for mental health services. Australia is currently undertaking an unified effort between clinicians, researchers, private sector, the government, and the users to provide a rigorously evaluated digital platform through Project Synergy. This multi-million dollar project can be the point of entry for many Australians who seek mental health care. Currently, Canada is also facing overwhelming demand of mental health services but does not have a such e-mental health project at the scale of Project Synergy. My goal is to conduct a process evaluation of Project Synergy and bring back my learning experiences back to Canada. This will guide unified effort to develop and evaluate large scale e-mental health platform in Canada.

Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Krausz

Student:

Partner:

The University of Sydney

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

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