Overview
Established by Tung Wah College (TWC) in January 2024, the Translational Research Centre for Digital Mental Health (TRC-DMH) aims to cultivate and enhance TWC's research expertise, competency, capacity, and infrastructure and conduct interdisciplinary and innovative translational research on digital mental health.
The TRC-DMH is an interdisciplinary translational research platform that promotes translational research on digital mental health and enhances academic and industry partners' collaborations through workshops, seminars, professional training programmes, and an international conference. The research deliverables can benefit and improve the community's mental health and well-being.
TRC-DMH aims to:
Strengthen the research capacity of TWC 's faculty, research staff, and students in conducting digital mental health research.
Synergize interdisciplinary collaboration to plan and develop translational research to enhance digital mental health preventive services, professional training, and community education.
Build a translational research platform and network to demonstrate the social impacts of our interdisciplinary research and to promote the best uses of digital mental health to various stakeholders.