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| International Society for Research on Internet Interventions | |
|---|---|
| Name | International Society for Research on Internet Interventions |
| Abbreviation | ISRIIs |
| Formation | 2004 |
| Type | Professional association |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam |
| Region served | International |
| Language | English |
| Leader title | President |
International Society for Research on Internet Interventions is a professional association dedicated to the development, evaluation, and dissemination of digital and online therapeutic interventions. The society convenes researchers, clinicians, funders, and policymakers to advance randomized trials, implementation science, and translational work in web-based and mobile mental health, behavioral medicine, and digital therapeutics. It fosters connections among scholars from institutions such as King's College London, Harvard University, University of Oxford, Stanford University, and University of Toronto.
The society was founded in the early 21st century amid growing interest generated by trials from groups at Karolinska Institutet, University of Melbourne, University of Zurich, University of Amsterdam, and Uppsala University; its formation followed international gatherings that included participants from National Institute of Mental Health, Wellcome Trust, National Institutes of Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and European Commission. Early leaders included investigators affiliated with University College London, McGill University, University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, and Maastricht University who prioritized methodological standards seen in trials from Columbia University, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of California, Los Angeles.
The society's mission emphasizes rigorous evaluation influenced by frameworks used at Cochrane Collaboration, CONSORT, World Health Organization, National Health Service, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration guidance, aiming to improve public health via evidence-based digital interventions. Objectives include promoting randomized controlled trial design standards drawn from Medical Research Council (United Kingdom), advancing implementation strategies aligned with Implementation Science leaders at University of Washington and supporting equitable access in partnership with organizations such as Global Mental Health initiatives and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Membership comprises investigators from universities including Imperial College London, University of Sydney, University of Exeter, Karolinska Institutet, and clinical partners such as Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Rothman Institute, and public agencies like Public Health England and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Governance is typically a board with roles analogous to governance at American Psychological Association, Royal College of Psychiatrists, European Society for Clinical Investigation, and other learned societies; committees reflect expertise from European Research Council, National Science Foundation, Australian Research Council, and philanthropic entities like Wellcome Trust.
The society organizes annual and biennial meetings similar in scope to conferences hosted by Association for Psychological Science, Society for Behavioral Medicine, American Psychiatric Association, World Psychiatric Association, and themed symposia overlapping with ACM CHI and IEEE EMBS tracks. Meetings have occurred in cities such as London, New York City, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Sydney, and Toronto, attracting delegates from institutions including ETH Zurich, Princeton University, Brown University, University of Copenhagen, and Trinity College Dublin.
Research spans randomized trials informed by methods used at RAND Corporation, health economics modeled after NICE, implementation work linked to Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and data science approaches employed by teams at Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, OpenAI, and university labs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Topics include digital cognitive behavioral therapy evaluated in trials from University of Bath and University of Warwick, smartphone-delivered interventions studied at University of British Columbia and University of Michigan, and stepped-care service models implemented in systems such as Veterans Health Administration and NHS England. Investigations also draw on ethics frameworks from Nuffield Council on Bioethics and regulatory policy from European Medicines Agency.
The society curates proceedings and thematic collections published in journals like Journal of Medical Internet Research, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Lancet Psychiatry, JAMA Psychiatry, and BMJ Open. It has promoted reporting checklists and repositories analogous to Open Science Framework, data-sharing initiatives coordinated with Dryad (repository), and educational materials used by trainees at Harvard Medical School, Stanford Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and postgraduate programs at King's College London.
ISRIIs collaborates with funding agencies and consortia including Wellcome Trust, National Institute for Health and Care Research, European Research Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and initiatives such as Global Digital Health Partnership and Mental Health Innovation Network. Partnerships extend to technology partners like Apple Inc., Google LLC, and research networks at World Health Organization collaborating with regional bodies such as Pan American Health Organization and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
Category:Scientific organizations