Video Outreach and Identity-Centered Engagement (VOICE) Lab

Video Outreach and Identity-Centered Engagement (VOICE) Lab

Director: Doron Amsalem, MD

Columbia University Department of Psychiatry  ·  New York State Psychiatric Institute

A platform dedicated to developing, testing, and scaling evidence-based brief video interventions tailored to youth mental health needs.

Personal stories are a powerful yet underused tool in mental health care — they can reduce stigma, increase understanding, and help people recognize themselves in the experiences of others. The VOICE Lab develops and tests brief, evidence-based video interventions that harness lived experience to promote help-seeking, improve engagement with care, and increase access to mental health services.

Click here to watch Shannon’s story of living with psychosis.

 

Lab Members

People

  • Doron Amsalem, MD

    • Director

    Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University and child and adolescent psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Amsalem develops and evaluates brief, evidence-based video interventions that reduce stigma, promote help-seeking, and improve engagement with mental health care. His research focuses on adolescents and young adults, the use of lived-experience narratives in mental health interventions, and the dissemination of evidence-based mental health content through social media and other digital platforms.

    Doron Amsalem, MD

  • Chana T. Fisch

    • Research Coordinator

    Chana serves as the VOICE Lab’s Research Coordinator and oversees the lab’s studies, video productions, and day-to-day research operations. She is often the first point of contact for participants, collaborators, and community partners. In addition to her role in the lab, she is a doctoral student whose research interests align closely with the development and evaluation of digital mental health interventions.

    Chana T. Fisch

Collaborators

  • Shilat Haim-Nachum, PhD

    • Tel Aviv University

  • Andrés Martin, MD, PhD

    • Yale University

  • Maya Adam, MD, PhD

    • Stanford University

  • Yossi Levi-Belz, PhD

    • University of Haifa

  • David Roe, PhD

    • University of Haifa

  • Timothy Becker, MD

    • Cornell University
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