Depression Grand Challenge Newsletter – COVID-19 Care Package Update #4: Tools for Addressing Loneliness Overcoming Boredom and Restlessness
Depression Grand Challenge Newsletter
Timing: Summer 2020
Topic: Updates to COVID-19 Care Package & News
Archive Tag: COVID-19
Nelson Freimer interviewed on KTVU San Francisco about UCLA’s recently launched study in collaboration with Apple
Nelson Freimer, director of the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge (DGC), appeared on KTVU San Francisco to discuss the DGC’s pilot research project in collaboration with Apple. The study – which seeks to develop more objective measures for detecting depression and anxiety – is designed so that all aspects of participation can be accomplished remotely. Nelson commented that physical distancing and other changes related to the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the importance of incorporating technologies like those to be tested in this study into clinical research and treatment.
Read more →
Dana Cuff (professor of architecture and urban design and founding director of cityLAB) appeared on KPCC’s AirTalk segment to discuss the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic could influence Los Angeles’s architecture.
Read more →
A UCLA Fielding School of Public Health research team led by Michael Jerrett (professor of environmental health sciences at the Fielding School) has been allocated $600,000 by the California Air Resources Board to study links between air pollution and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read more →
In an article focused on mental health in the time of coronavirus, UCLA Magazine highlighted the UCLA COVID-19 Care Package created in partnership with Beyoncé’s BeyGOOD initiative and Jack Dorsey’s Start Small fund. The article shared the “five C’s” for managing COVID-19 anxiety, as well as COVID-19–related insights from UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Co-Director Michelle Craske (psychology and psychiatry).
Read more →Tags
- 100k Studies
- Campus
- Climate Change
- Clinical Research
- COVID-19
- Depression Causes
- Discovery Neuroscience
- Economy
- Ecosystem Health
- Energy
- Environmental Justice
- Event
- External Coverage
- Fellows
- Funding
- Greenhouse Gases
- Innovative Treatment Center
- Mention/Expert Opinion
- Newsletter - DGC
- Newsletter - SLA GC
- Recognition
- Research
- Research Spotlight (SLA GC)
- Stigma and Awareness
- Structure
- Students
- Team Member Spotlight (DGC)
- Transportation
- Treatment
- Water
- WHD