Dr. Vigo’s recommendations in action: BC to expand care for people with concurrent brain injury, mental health and substance use challenges
September 15, 2024 Dr. Daniel Vigo joined Premier David Eby and others in announcing plans to expand secure facilities for individuals under the Mental Health Act and to enhance mental health treatment within BC corrections for those with mental health and addiction challenges. Read the announcement by BC Gov News, the related article by Times […] Read More
Effectiveness of the Minder Mobile Mental Health and Substance Use Intervention for University Students: Randomized Controlled Trial
Read about the results of our randomized control trial of Minder! This publication describes the evaluation of Minder‘s effectiveness in improving mental health, substance use, and mental-wellbeing outcomes. Vereschagin, M., Wang, A. Y., Richardson, C. G., Xie, H., Munthali, R. J., Hudec, K. L., Leung, C., Wojcik, K. D., Munro, L., Halli, P., Kessler, R. […] Read More
Co-Developing Tools to Support Student Mental Health: Minder App
Curious as to how Minder was designed and developed? This paper outlines the co-development process our lab used to conceptualize and create Minder. We detail the phases of development from initial to final app design to introduce all the main components of Minder, and highlight the importance of UBC student input in all aspects of […] Read More
Suicidal ideation amongst university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Time trends and risk factors
Dr. Daniel Vigo and his coauthors analyzed 14 months of UBC student data to identify time trends in suicidal ideation over the first three waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. 18.9% of students experienced suicidal ideation in the previous 30 days of survey response, and suicidal ideation was relatively stable over the course of […] Read More
Determinants of effective treatment coverage for posttraumatic stress disorder: Findings from the World Mental Health Surveys
In this publication, Dr. Daniel Vigo and other WHO World Mental Health Survey Collaborators analyze data from over 35,000 respondents of the WHO World Mental Health Survey to identify determinants of effective treatment coverage for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Results suggest that a majority of individuals reporting 12-month PTSD did not have adequate pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, […] Read More
The True Global Disease Burden of Mental Illness: Still Elusive
This new Lancet Psychiatry article critiques the recent Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study, and re-estimates the burden of mental, neurological, substance use disorders and suicide. Vigo, Jones, Atun & Thornicroft posit that the GBD study did not capture the disability caused by somatoform and personality disorders, and did not include mortality […] Read More
Dawn of a New Day for Mental Health Systems
June 2, 2021 Dr. Daniel Vigo has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Mental Health Systems (IJMHS). In his inaugural editorial, Dr. Vigo discusses his plans for the IJMHS to bridge the “knowledge to action” gap by encouraging translational research and implementation science through new areas of focus. “We are at the gates […] Read More
Burden of Mental, Neurological, Substance Use Disorders and Self-Harm in North America
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 2020 Feb;65(2):87-98. Read More
Disease Burden and Government Spending on Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders, and Self-harm
The Lancet Public Health. Published online November 13, 2018 Read More
Estimating the True Global Burden of Mental Illness
The Lancet Psychiatry. Published February 01, 2016 Read More
Dr. Daniel Vigo
Assistant Professor | Department of Psychiatry
DrPH, Harvard University (’17); MD, University of Buenos Aires (’07); Lic. in Psychology (Bachelor’s + Master’s), University of Buenos Aires (’00)