Lunch & Learn - AI and Digital Mental Health Impacts on Wellbeing

Overview

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Mental Health Impacts on Wellbeing is the second online forum delivered as part of the Loddon Mallee Public Health Unit’s Wellbeing Lunch and Learn Series.

AI is rapidly shaping the way people live, work, learn, and seek information and support. Communities, young people, and professionals are increasingly encountering AI-generated mental health information, tools, and content—often without clear guidance on what is safe, ethical, or evidence-based.

This session provides a balanced and accessible overview of AI and digital mental health and its emerging implications for mental health and wellbeing. Participants will explore both the potential benefits of positive digital change, as well as the risks, limitations, and safety considerations relevant to mental health.

Expert speakers will share evidence-based insights and current research, alongside lived and living experience perspectives on how AI is already affecting individuals and communities.

What you’ll learn

Participants will be supported to:

• Build foundational digital literacy related to AI and digital mental health

• Understand how AI and digital mental health are currently influencing mental health and wellbeing

• Explore potential opportunities and benefits of AI and digital mental health on wellbeing

• Examine risks, limitations, ethical considerations, and safety concerns, including privacy, bias, and misinformation

• Hear evidence-based insights, current research, and emerging directions in AI and digital mental health

• Learn from lived and living experience perspectives on how AI and digital mental health is impacting people and communities

Interactive Q&A

The session includes a facilitated Q&A panel, with opportunities to submit questions in advance or during the webinar, providing space to explore real-world concerns and sector-specific impacts of AI and digital mental health on wellbeing.

About our speakers
This session will feature expert speakers alongside lived and living experience contributors. 

Topic expert speakers;

• Associate Professor Shane Cross - Director of Digital Service Transformation and Research at Orygen Digital and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne

• Professor Jill Newby - NHMRC Emerging Leader and Clinical Psychologist at the Black Dog Institute and UNSW, and co-director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Depression Treatment Precision