Catalyst Grant: AI-enabled technologies and Brain & Mental Health

The specific objective(s) of this funding opportunity are to:

• Rapidly mobilize interdisciplinary research collaborations bridging AI with brain and mental health research and adopting Open Science principles.
• Create the conditions that will enable the generation of rigorous, comparable, actionable and policy-relevant evidence on the simultaneous benefits and harms of AI-enabled digital technologies, by developing measurement frameworks, reporting guidelines, methodological and/or study design approaches. These efforts will lay the groundwork to support future studies regarding the benefits and harms of AI-enabled digital technologies.
• Generate new rigorous evidence on the benefits and harms of AI-enabled digital technologies for brain and mental health using appropriate study designs and reproducible analytic strategies with the potential to inform future regulation and the design of safe technology.
• Support research that advances understanding of the benefits and harms of AI-enabled digital technologies in contexts relevant to the health and wellness priorities of First Nations, Inuit, and/or Métis Peoples.