This award was founded on a guiding question: As artificial intelligence transforms every aspect of healthcare, how do we ensure it elevates mental health care in the right way?
The answer became our purpose—to recognize and celebrate leaders who are advancing AI in mental health with ethics, inclusivity, and genuine human impact at the core.
Around the world, mental health care continues to face profound challenges: limited access, workforce shortages, the need for earlier intervention, and the complexity of personalizing care for diverse communities. These are not abstract issues—they reflect the lived experiences of millions seeking support.
AI holds extraordinary promise to help address these realities. But its impact depends entirely on how it is conceived, developed, and deployed—whether it protects user safety and privacy, respects cultural context, and strengthens rather than replaces the essential human elements of care: empathy, trust, and connection.
This award exists to shine a light on innovators who understand that responsibility. Those who ask not only “What can AI do?” but “How can AI serve?” Those who define success by meaningful, measurable outcomes in people’s lives.
At Core Solutions, our commitment is to develop AI-powered tools for behavioral health that support clinicians, empower clients, and improve outcomes. We launched this award because innovation is a global pursuit—and transformative ideas can come from anywhere.
Each year, the award honours individuals and organisations whose work exemplifies rigorous innovation, ethical practice, and real-world impact for the mental health community.
This is only the beginning. Together, we are helping to set a new global standard for responsible AI in mental health.
Congratulations to this year’s winner—and to all who continue to push the field forward with integrity and purpose.
