Dr. Alexia Polillo is a staff scientist with the Slaight Family Centre for Youth in Transition at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
She obtained her PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Ottawa and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at CAMH. She has received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Mitacs and the CAMH Foundation, and has worked with various government agencies and industry leaders.
Areas of research
Dr. Polillo’s research is at the intersection of digital mental health, social media, evaluation, and lived experience engagement. Her research focuses on evaluating hospital- and community-based mental health services to improve access, engagement, and quality of care using mixed and participatory methods and leverages digital tools and social media to improve youth mental health.
She is also co-lead of digital phenotyping on the Cohort Network for Adolescents and Youth with Multiple Mental Health Conditions (CALM) study funded by the Ontario Brain Institute. This work uses wearable devices, ecological momentary assessment, and mobile sensing to identify digital markers of psychopathology among young people experiencing mental illness.
Publications
View Dr. Polillo’s publications on Google Scholar.