Huzefa Dossaji will be speaking at the 2026 CHAMPS/NWRPCA Fall Primary Care Conference with Kyle Pederson, who works at the Iowa Primary Care Association. For more than 25 years, CHAMPS and NWRPCA have proudly partnered to present the premier annual gathering for Community Health Centers across Region 18 (Regions VIII and X — CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY, AK, ID, OR, and WA).

The American Psychological Association's APA Labs will host Inside the Lab, a two-day event on October 14–15, 2026, at Brazos Hall in Austin, Texas. The event brings together psychologists, researchers, healthcare leaders, technology innovators, entrepreneurs, and investors to explore emerging opportunities and challenges in digital mental and behavioral health.

A recent article published in the Association for Psychological Science (APS), “Transforming the Youth Mental Health Workforce,” addresses a critical mismatch in the United States: youth mental health needs have increased substantially, while the supply of trained behavioral health providers has not kept pace. The authors argue that existing graduate-level training pipelines alone are unlikely to meet current demand, especially as depression, anxiety, suicidality, and other behavioral health concerns among youth continue to strain schools, families, and care systems.

Digital mental and behavioral health tools are rapidly becoming part of everyday care, self-management, prevention, and wellness. Apps and technology-enabled tools now support sleep, mood tracking, anxiety management, mindfulness, symptom monitoring, family wellbeing, and clinical care coordination. At the same time, the rapid growth of the digital health marketplace has made it increasingly difficult for clinicians, health systems, students, families, and the public to determine which tools are safe, evidence-informed, clinically appropriate, and trustworthy.

Most results can be reproduced when data and code are available—but most papers still do not share them

“Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioral sciences,” a paper published today in Nature reports testing the reproducibility of a large sample of findings from the social and behavioral sciences and found room for improvement.

The United States is facing a well-documented shortage of behavioral health professionals with far-reaching implications for public health and health system performance. This shortage affects the full continuum of providers—including psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, marriage and family therapists, licensed clinical social workers, and substance use treatment professionals—and has contributed to significant disruption in the nation’s ability to meet its behavioral health needs.

Policy Brief

Executive Summary

Insurer ownership and operation of primary care practices is expanding rapidly and is increasingly concentrated in Medicare Advantage (MA) markets. Evidence suggests that this model creates a structural misalignment in behavioral health financing: MA risk adjustment produces front-loaded financial rewards for documenting diagnoses, while expanding behavioral health treatment capacity generates back-loaded costs.