Equity and Digital Innovation: A Case Study of 9-8-8: Suicide Crisis Helpline

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This session will be live interpreted from English to French

Join Dr. Allison Crawford, Psychiatrist and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, as she shares her insights into the implementation of 9-8-8: Suicide Crisis Helpline, Canada’s national suicide prevention service. As the Chief Medical Officer for 9-8-8, Dr. Crawford will provide an overview of the helpline, its role in addressing suicide prevention, and its impact on mental health care across the nation. This session will also highlight the opportunities for Health Equity Impact Assessments to improve the equity and accessibility of digital health innovations, and how they are being applied to 9-8-8.

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  Dr. Allison Crawford, MD, PhD, is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, at the University of Toronto. She is a Psychiatrist and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), where she is the Chief Medical Officer of 9-8-8: Suicide Crisis Helpline, the national suicide prevention service; Medical Director of the Ontario Psychiatric Outreach Program; and a Founder and Co-Chair of ECHO Ontario (www.echoontario.ca), an award-winning, virtual community of practice. She was a Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in 2021-22. These activities advance access to mental health services, with a focus on public mental health, suicide prevention, and community and citizen engagement in health care. Allison also has a PhD in English literature, and leads the Health Humanities portfolio in the Department of Psychiatry. As the Founder and Scientific Director of HeART Lab (www.healthequityART.com), and Editor-in-Chief of Ars Medica: Journal of Medicine, Humanities and the Arts (www.arsmedica.ca), she brings arts-based research approaches to her work in community engagement and knowledge translation, and believes that the arts contribute to public mental health.