Chicago Parks District (CPD) Guided Mindfulness Walk

Posted on September 09, 2025

ACCESS for Mental Health Lab members collaborate with the Chicago Parks District (CPD) for another staff wellness event, this time in the Osaka Garden, where Melanie Tran, MA, Elyse Shenberger, PhD, Margarete Wallner, MD, and Tara Mehta, PhD, led a guided mindfulness walk for CPD staff focused on teaching everyday skills for mental hea

Sports-based youth development staff & youth mental health: Holistic, contextualized, and flexible social support

Posted on September 09, 2025

Authors: Tran, M., Kang, S., & Mehta, T. G. from the Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community

Sofia Isabella Lostaunau participated in the Summer Research Opportunity Program

Posted on September 09, 2025

Sofia Isabella Lostaunau, an undergraduate research assistant with the ACCESS for Mental Health Lab, participated in the Summer Research Opportunity Program under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Meinzer.

New PREMIER T32 postdoctoral fellow - Dr. Ali Zax

Posted on September 09, 2025

The ACCESS lab has the pleasure of welcoming Ali Zax, PhD, who is beginning as a PREMIER T32 postdoctoral fellow through the Department of Medicine! UIC’s T32 fellowship provides postdoctoral fellows who aspire to be independent researchers or team scientists an opportunity to develop their knowledge on translational science. Ali will be assisting Dr.

ACCESS for Mental Health Lab members collaborate with the Chicago Park District to implement workshops supporting staff health and wellness.

Posted on June 09, 2025

Melanie Tran, MA. Elyse Shenberger, PhD, Margarete Wallner, MD, and Tara Mehta, PhD are working with the Chicago Park District Wellness Committee members,

Tara Mehta, PhD, UIC Psychiatry Faculty, presented, with her Chicago Park District colleague.

Posted on June 09, 2025

Tara Mehta, PhD, UIC Psychiatry Faculty, presented, with her Chicago Park District colleague Colleen Lammel-Harmon, MPH, RD, Health & Wellness Officer, Chicago Park District, presented an overview of research in the parks describing projects from a 20 year collaboration between Dr. Mehta and the Chicago Park District .

Dr. Tara Mehta & Urban Initiatives: A partnership to promote children’s mental health

Posted on October 18, 2021

Dr. Tara Mehta and her partners at Urban Initiatives talk about their efforts to improve children’s mental health by teaching recreational staff how to promote social-emotional learning during recess.

Tara Mehta, co-authors make dissemination and implementation recommendations to national and local NCATS leaders

Posted on September 12, 2021

Integrating dissemination and implementation sciences within Clinical and Translational Science Award programs to advance translational research: Recommendations to national and local leaders.

Reducing the burden of mental health: How do we get there from here?

Posted on October 07, 2020

On 7th October 2020, Dr. Tara Mehta was one of the speakers in Faculty Blitz for 11th Annual Research Forum (aka Extravaganza) entitled 'Reducing the burden of mental health: How do we get there from here?'.