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Dr. Kammarauche (Uche) Aneni is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist. She is an assistant professor of child psychiatry, biomedical informatics, and data science. She is the Principal Investigator of the ACCESS Lab at the Yale Child Study Center. The overall goal of her research is to improve access to preventive interventions for adolescents at risk for substance use and mental health problems. Her research interests focus on developing, testing, and implementing preventive digital interventions, particularly culturally informed family-based interventions for racial/ethnic minorities in community-based settings. She is also investigating the utility of digital tools in identifying adolescents at risk for substance use and mental disorders through digital biomarkers and machine learning approaches. Dr. Aneni’s research is supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, National Institutes of Health (NIH) AIM-AHEAD program, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation.

Chandler Brown is a postgraduate associate at the ACCESS Lab at the Yale Child Study Center. She has an interest in studying and developing unique strategies and techniques that capture the African Diaspora experience involving research and medical practices. She is a recent graduate of Alabama State University and hopes to pursue an M.D. or J.D. in the coming years.

Christina is a student on the dual MRes Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology program at University College London - Yale. She is a Postgraduate Research Fellow at the ACCESS Lab at the Yale Child Study Center. For her thesis, she is developing and validating digital biomarkers of adolescent executive functions and substance-use risk using in-game behavioural data.