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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. Her research centers on public health disparities, with a particular focus on how structural inequities, policy implications, and socioeconomic factors shape mental health and substance use outcomes in marginalized communities. She is especially interested in examining how systemic factors such as targeted retail density, colorism, and social disadvantage influence health behaviors and long-term wellbeing among Black and Afro-diasporic populations. Chandler is a graduate of Alabama State University and plans to pursue advanced training in public health and medicine to continue addressing health inequities through research, policy, and clinical practice.

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.