Mental Health

Why betting apps and online casinos need policy guardrails.

In October 2025, global health leaders, policymakers, youth advocates, and researchers convened in the nation’s capital for a two-day A Call to Action for Youth Mental Health. The event served as the U.S. launch of the report of the Second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing, an international effort to address the urgent and escalating challenges facing adolescents worldwide. Hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Mental Health, the convening followed the World Health Assembly launch in May 2025. 

The next steps will be to continue collaborating with partners across the U.S. and the world to support the actions responsive to youth needs, including, 

• Integrate youth lived experience expertise into mental health research, policy, and practice
• Apply data-driven accountability for equitable access to quality care
• Shape urban environments to promote youth mental health
• Understand gendered drivers and tailored responses to support youth mental health
• Catalyze intersectoral engagement for youth mental health: health, education, and social support systems 

U.S. adults reporting recent symptoms of depression, anxiety, or post-traumatic stress were significantly more likely to use buy now, pay later loans, a rapidly expanding, lightly regulated form of short-term consumer credit.

Although alcohol use is declining in the U.S., drinking still poses an enormous threat to public health.

Chronic school absenteeism is a national crisis—for education and for public health.

Data snapshots show hopeful—and worrying—trends in U.S. kids’ health.

Helping children and adolescents cope with adverse experiences can prevent them from defining the future.

What is digital life doing to young minds?

The September 25 UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs and Mental Health offers an opportunity to advance the message that mental health, and specifically young people’s mental health, must be both an economic and moral priority.

A new study shows significant disparities in mental health among groups.

Grace Ringlein is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics whose areas of focus include causal inference, measurement error, Electronic Health Record (EHR) data, mental health, and algorithmic fairness.

The grant will study the effectiveness of an adolescent mental health app in improving well-being and reducing anxiety and depression among teenagers. 

A program at Johns Hopkins Hospital helps clinicians petition for ERPOs when patients are at high risk of committing gun violence.