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The Canadian Youth Mental Health Insight (CYMHI) Platform: Optimizing mental health for youth across Canada through open data, machine learning, and knowledge exchange

Project Overview

Our aim is to optimise mental health for youth across Canada, by providing a state-of-the-art informatics platform to support knowledge and data integration, open data, machine learning and improved communication between stakeholders – the Canadian Youth Mental Health Insight Platform. The platform will transform research and enable knowledge discovery, exchange and innovation between population and community-based prevention programs, integrated youth services networks, and large-scale research studies. The project will engage youth, family members, clinicians, service providers, policymakers, researchers, biomedical scientists, and data scientists from throughout Canada who will collectively design, build, and use the platform. Impact of the platform will be demonstrated through three core projects: personalised services recommender to match users to available services, precision predictive modelling to provide personalised trajectory prediction for decision support, and establishing a national youth mental health atlas to enable proactive data-driven policy decisions. Platform governance is of paramount importance and will balance engagement, privacy and integration, harmonising outcome measures and data collection, and facilitating analysis and prediction to support continuous program and system improvement in a learning health system committed to the principles of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI).

Principal Investigator

Sean Hill , University of Toronto

Team Members

Aristotle Voineskos, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Joanna Henderson, Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario; Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; University of Toronto

Steve Mathias, Foundry BC; University of British Columbia”

Pamela Skye Barbic, Foundry BC; University of British Columbia

Gina Dimitropoulos, University of Calgary

Paul Arnold, University of Calgary

Patricia Conrod, Université de Montreal, CHU Ste-Justine

Sherry Stewart, Dalhousie University

Nicole Kozloff, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; University of Toronto

Daniel Felsky, Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; University of Toronto

Renee Linklater, Shkaabe Makwa – Centre for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Wellness, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Kathy Georgiades, McMaster University

Daniel Buchman, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Branka Agic, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Karolin Krause, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; University College London

Jean Addington, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary

Scott Patten, University of Calgary

Dan Devoe, University of Calgary

Lena Quilty, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; University of Toronto

Eran Tal, McGill University

Nancy Mayo, McGill University

Susan Bartlett, McGill University

Shauna MacEachern, Frayme

Katherine Bright, University of Calgary

Laura Gagnon, Shkaabe Makwa – Centre for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Wellness, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Karen Tee, Foundry BC

Janis Wolfe, Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario

Debbie Chiodo, Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario

Katherine Hay, Kickstand

Steven Adelsheim, Stanford University; Allcove

Patrick McGorry, Orygen; headspace-Australia; International Association for Youth Mental Health

Alex O'Neill, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Partners and Donors

RBC Future Launch

Power Corporation of Canada

Project Ongoing

The Canadian Youth Mental Health Insight (CYMHI) Platform: Optimizing mental health for youth across Canada through open data, machine learning, and knowledge exchange

  • Program Type

    Platform grants

  • Area of research

    Mental Health

  • Disease Area

    Mental illness

  • Competition

    Brain Canada Youth Mental Health Platform, powered by RBC Future Launch

  • Province

    Ontario

  • Start Date

    2022

  • Total Grant Amount

    $5,130,000

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $2,565,000