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Transforming the understanding
and treatment of mental illnesses.

280th Meeting of the National Advisory Mental Health Council Open Session Agenda

September 15, 2026 
10:00 a.m. - 1:20 p.m.

VideoCast: NIH Videocast Link 

TimeEvent
10:00 a.m.

CALL TO ORDER

Elizabeth Church, Ph.D.
Acting Director, Division of Extramural Activities

Andrea Beckel-Mitchener, Ph.D.
Acting Director, NIMH

10:15 a.m.

NIMH DIRECTOR’S REPORT

Andrea Beckel-Mitchener, Ph.D.
Acting Director, NIMH

DISCUSSION

11:00 a.m.

YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Presenter:
Jacqueline Nesi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Brown University

DISCUSSION

11:30 a.m.

BREAK

11:45 a.m.

NIH POLICY UPDATE

Presenter:
Anna Taylor, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, NIH Office of Extramural Research

DISCUSSION

12:30 p.m.

CONCEPT CLEARANCES

Adam Haim, Ph.D.
Division of Services and Intervention Research
Advancing Real-World Effectiveness Evidence for Rapid-Acting Psychotropic Interventional Drugs (RAPIDs)

David Panchinson, Ph.D.
Division of Neuroscience and Basic Behavioral Science
Scalable and Systematic Neurobiology of Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Disorder Risk Genes: Data Resource and Administrative Coordination Center

Vasudev Rao, M.B.B.S., M.S.
Division of AIDS Research
National NeuroAIDS Tissue Consortium

1:00 p.m.PUBLIC COMMENT
1:15 p.m.ADJOURNMENT