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Shaping Anonymous Support - Your Input Matters!

Many people avoid therapy or digital health services because they fear being judged or excluded due to sensitive personal characteristics. At the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité, we are addressing this challenge through the VERANDA research project which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space.

Our mission is to develop safe and anonymous access to digital health support such as psychotherapy – especially for individuals who currently avoid such services due to fear of stigmatization.

Teilnehmende gesucht!

Das Projekt VERANDA sucht Teilnehmende für eine Befragung zu Bedürfnissen und Anforderungen potenzieller Nutzer*innen von anonymen Online-Fernbehandlungen. Ziel ist es, diese für Menschen aus stigmatisierten Gruppen zugänglicher zu machen.

How to protect your identity and access the project anonymously

We understand that our project addresses highly sensitive and potentially stigmatized issues. That is why we provide a little guide on how to maintain your privacy when accessing our website, surveys and when communicating with us. Keep on mind, there is no 100% certainty, but these are ways to help get closer.

VERANDA-BMBF project kick-off

Today we had a very nice VERANDA BMBF-project kick-off. Together with Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Maija Poikela and Hannes Gieseler), Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) (Tim Polzehl, Roland Roller), Fraunhofer AISEC (Nikolai Lenski) and Quality and Usability Lab (Salar Mohtaj and me) we work on trustworthy anonymisation of sensitive medical records for remote consultation.