Tackling the Youth Mental Health Crisis with a Comprehensive and Actionable Data Platform
The Youth Mental Health Tracker paves the way to scalable, lasting solutions by uncovering deep insights into the key factors influencing youth mental health and wellbeing outcomes.
About the Project
The Youth Mental Health Tracker (YMHT) a project implemented by Surgo Health, in partnership with Pivotal, SHOWTIME/MTV Entertainment Studios, along with an expert and youth advisory board. Our mission is to uncover the complexities of youth mental health and wellbeing, providing actionable insights that equip communities, policymakers, and healthcare providers to foster environments where young people can truly thrive.
The YMHT Offers
01Unparalleled depth of insights
Integrates 10+ external datasets, recurring snapshot surveys, and behavioral data over multiple years.
02Comprehensive view
Provides a holistic perspective of youth mental health, including novel, equity-forward data on both wellbeing and mental illness at national and local levels.
03Solutions focus
Provides holistic insights through accessible and actionable data visualizations, focusing on solutions informed by the lived experiences of youth.
04Dynamic, recurring updates
Tracks shifts in youth mental health and wellbeing, with multiple updates released annually.
The YMHt by the numbers
10,000+youth surveyed directly over multiple rounds* (one of the largest youth sample size to date)
70+behavioral drivers mapped
10+existing datasets integrated
11youth advisory council members
6Subject matter experts
About Surgo Health
Surgo Health is a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) offering a revolutionary behavioral analytics platform and generating novel, real-world data to inform better health outcomes. Our data-driven, human-centered approach enables a greater understanding of the complex factors that influence how individuals engage in their healthcare. Surgo Health uses its data platform to understand people’s beliefs, biases, social norms, socio-economic conditions, and the overall environment in which they live to understand their unique healthcare journeys. Surgo Health aims to use data to transform health outcomes across areas including adolescent mental health, maternal health, and clinical trial diversity, recruitment, and retention. Visit surgohealth.com to learn more.
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Surgo Project Leadership
Our Partners
Subject Matter Expert Board
Youth Advisory Board Partner
Peer Health Exchange
Peer Health Exchange’s mission is to advance health equity by building healthier communities with young people. They create education opportunities for peers to share the tools and resources young people need to make healthy decisions. Surgo has partnered with Peer Health Exchange to create a dedicated Youth Advisory board, infusing youth voices throughout the creation of the YMHT and reactions to YMHT data.
Sponsor Partners
Pivotal
Founded by Melinda French Gates in 2015, Pivotal works to advance social progress and expand women's power and influence in the U.S. and around the world. Through high-impact investments, philanthropy, partnerships, and advocacy, Pivotal seeks to remove the barriers that hold women - and all people - back. Pivotal is comprised of Pivotal Ventures, LLC and Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit organization launched in 2022. Learn more at pivotalventures.org
SHOWTIME/MTV Entertainment Studios
SHOWTIME/MTV Entertainment Studios produces 120+ series annually, including some of today’s biggest hits such as Yellowstone, Emily in Paris, 1923, 1883, George and Tammy, South Park, Tulsa King, The Daily Show, RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Challenge and Jersey Shore, to name a few, as well as award-winning documentaries through its acclaimed MTV Documentary Films. MTV Entertainment uses its reach for social impact, spearheading broad change-driven coalitions, content and campaigns on mental health and civic engagement.
Policy Playbook Partner
Inseparable
Inseparable is a leading mental health advocacy organization founded on the belief that the health of our minds is inseparable from the health of our bodies. Inseparable drives transformative change at the federal and state levels by engaging policymakers, mobilizing support, and advancing mental health and substance use disorder policies that help people thrive. Inseparable works to expand coverage of care, promote youth mental health, improve crisis response, and bolster the mental health workforce.
Dr. Cindy Liu, Ph.D
Director, Developmental Risk and Cultural Resilience Laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Desmond Patton, Ph.D
Brian and Randi Schwartz University Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice and Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Myeshia Price, Ph.D
Associate Professor in Human Development and Associate Research Scientist at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University
Dr. Nia West-Bey, Ph.D, MA
Executive Director, National Collaborative for Transformative Youth Policy