Interests:
Digital mental health interventions, mHealth, Artificial Intelligence (AI) in mental healthcare, digital phenotyping, and Global Mental Health.
Background:
Dr. Ben-Zeev is a licensed clinical psychologist and digital mental health researcher. He has extensive experience in design, development, usability testing, randomized controlled trials (RCTs), and large scale implementation efforts focused on deployment of a wide range of digital interventions (e.g., smartphone apps, texting interventions, multi-modal sensing systems, AI-infused system) for people with mental illness and their caregivers. Dr. Ben-Zeev serves as the director of the Behavioral Research in Technology and Engineering (BRiTE) Center at UW’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Current projects:
- Developing Data-Driven Clinical Signatures for People Who Experience Hallucinations
- Technology-Assisted Implementation of a Mobile Health Intervention for Serious Mental illness
- Combining mHealth and nurse-delivered care to improve the outcomes of people with serious mental illness in West Africa
- Developing an Artificial Intelligence Digital Navigator System to Support Patients’ use of Technology-Based Interventions
- Development and testing of a caregiver-facing mobile health intervention to reduce duration of untreated psychosis
Representative publications:
Ben-Zeev, D., Brian, R.M., Jonathan, G.K., Razzano, L., Pashka, N., Carpenter-Song, E.A., Drake, R.E. & Scherer, E.A. (2018). Mobile Health (mHealth) vs Clinic-Based Group Intervention for People with Serious Mental Illness: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Psychiatric Services 69 (9), 978-985.
Ben-Zeev, D., Buck, B., Chander, A., Brian, R., Wang, W., Atkins, D., Brenner, C.J., Cohen,T., Campbell, A., & Munson J. (2020). Mobile RDoC: Using Smartphones to Understand the Relationship Between Auditory Verbal Hallucinations and Need for Care. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open. Nov 9;1(1):sgaa060.
Ben-Zeev, D., Chander, A., Tauscher, J., Buck, B., Nepal, S., Campbell, A., & Doron, G. (2021). A Smartphone Intervention for People with Serious Mental Illness: Fully Remote Randomized Controlled Trial of CORE. JMIR, 23 (11):e29201.
Ben-Zeev, D., Larsen, A., Attah, D.A., Obeng, K., Beaulieu, A., Asafo, S.M., Gavi, K.G., Kadakia, A., Sottie, E.Q., Ohene, S., Kola, L., Hallgren, K., Snyder, J., Collins, PY., Ofori-Atta, A., & M-Healer Research Team. (2024). Combining mHealth Technology and Pharmacotherapy to Improve Mental Health Outcomes and Reduce Human Rights Abuses in West Africa: Intervention Field Trial. JMIR Mental Health,11:e53096.
Ben-Zeev, D., Tauscher, J., Sandel-Fernandez D, Buck, B. , Kopelovich, S, Lyon, A.R., Chwastiak, L, & Marcus, S.C. (2025). Implementing mHealth for Schizophrenia in Community Mental Health Settings: Hybrid Type 3 Effectiveness-Implementation Trial. Psychiatric Services, 76, 1091–1098.
Ben-Zeev, D. (2026). To AI or not to AI: That is not the question. Psychiatric Services, 77 (2) 94-95.