Robert Morris, PhD, Founder of “Koko,” a social network for mental health and well-being will give the closing keynote speech at the 14th annual Depression on College Campuses conference. More than 30 million adults in the United States suffer from depression. Many more meet the diagnostic criteria for an anxiety disorder. Psychotherapies like cognitive-behavioral therapy can be extremely effective, but the demand for these treatments exceeds the resources available. What if we could crowdsource this problem? In this talk, Dr. Robert Morris will introduce Koko — a social network for mental health and well-being. He will describe the design, deployment, and evaluation of this platform and trace its evolution from an MIT side project to a mobile app now serving 145 countries around the world. He will also showcase some of the unanticipated benefits of the app, including new findings which suggest that helping others on the platform conveys the most benefits.

This closing keynote presentation is part of the University of Michigan Depression on College Campuses, and is open to the public. For more information about the overall conference, please visit www.depresscioncenter.org/docc