In this year’s Labelle Lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, entitled “Timely: Towards early intervention of children’s mental ill-health,” Dr. Anna Moore of Cambridge University, UK, will discuss the opportunity that predictive technologies offer to enable a preventative system for children’s mental health, and the infrastructure required for its development and implementation.

There is a mental health crisis in our children. Prevalence is rising and services cannot meet needs – there is a critical need to reverse this trend. Yet most health research focuses on adults. I will discuss the opportunity predictive technologies offer to enable a preventative system for children’s mental health, and the infrastructure required to for its development and implementation. I will draw on early experiences as a clinician, policy fellow at the Department of Health and in a government-funded health innovation hub that lead to me heading a national child mental health transformation program adopted by over 60 per cent of the UK. This work highlighted the need to build CADRE, the Child & Adolescent Data Resource, which makes longitudinal multiagency administrative data together with genomics and biomarker information available to academics and innovators to stimulate paediatric research, development and health system improvement.

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