Kristin Kosyluk, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, and Alexandra Albizu-Jacob, MPH, a CBCS doctoral student, traveled to Ulm University in Germany to meet with other scholars doing work on a strategic disclosure intervention to reduce mental illness stigma. Kosyluk (PI) and co-PI Jerome Galea, PhD, MSW, LCSW, received CBCS Internal Grant Program funding to adapt a strategic disclosure stigma reduction intervention called Honest, Open, Proud (or Up To Me) for chatbot delivery. Kosyluk and Albizu-Jacob presented on the preliminary feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of their chatbot for the Technology Subcommittee for the International Honest, Open, Proud Steering Committee.
Meeting attendees gather for a group photo.
Albizu-Jacob serves as the graduate research assistant and project coordinator on this grant. The team’s chatbot has been developed using human-centered design strategies.
Kosyluk serves as chair on the Technology Subcommittee for the International Honest, Open, Proud Steering Committee. She also presented on work that she is doing to adapt the intervention for HIV disclosure deliberation and stigma reduction. She is collaborating with Galea, Tiffany Chenneville, PhD, EdS, Kemesha Gabbidon, PhD, MPH, Molly Franke, SD, and Renato Errea, MD, MMSc on this project.