Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley | Researching mental health inequities in minoritized groups, risk and resilience, culturally robust mental health services, and digital mental health treatments
Giovanni Ramos
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Reductions were not only statistically significant, but 61% achieved a clinically significant reduction in stress, 48% in anxiety, and 54% in depression.
100% of participants downloaded the app and engaged consistently for 4 weeks, with only 14% dropping out—a dramatic difference from most RCTs
This approach may represent a more immediate path to mental health equity: rather than waiting for group-specific digital interventions to be developed, we can leverage existing digital tools to make evidence-based interventions immediately available to these populations.
One of the most important contributions of this work is that we intentionally used a commercially available, non-culturally adapted app. The field often assumes these tools won't work without extensive cultural adaptation, but our results challenge that assumption!
hostile political discourse against some communities of color, and high-profile instances of police violence. These were the results:
Participants in the intervention group experienced significant reductions in stress, anxiety, and depression, with gains emerging in as little as 2 weeks.
Many thanks to @akmontoya.bsky.social, @draguilera.bsky.social, Anna Lau, Craig Enders, Yinyin Wen, and Denise Chavira for their collaboration on this project!
In this RCT, we tested the Mindfulness for Us (Mind-Us) program—a 4-week self-guided program—among Latinx, Asian, Black, Native American, and Multiracial adults exposed to elevated levels of discrimination between 2020 and 2022, a period marked by the COVID-19 pandemic...
I’m updating the “mediation” lecture for my grad stats class. What’s new in mediation these days? Is it still worth explaining the original Baron and Kenny method? Suggested R packages?
Note: these are first-year grad psychology students in a larger GLM class. I have 2 hours.
Some good news today methinks
Can less than 10 minutes daily on a mindfulness app improve the mental health of people of color exposed to discrimination? Based on our new publication in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (@jmirpub.bsky.social), the answer is yes!
www.jmir.org/2026/1/e84328/
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Big Tech has become infamous for ‘moving fast and breaking things’. Policymakers rushing to enact youth social media bans risk repeating Big Tech’s mistakes and compounding the problems the bans are trying to solve. We cannot ban our way out of a youth mental health crisis.
Editorial by me >>
