Center for Behavioral Health and Technology

What Center for Behavioral Health and Technology does

The Center for Behavioral Health and Technology is an academic research unit within the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences, founded as a research center and located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Its stated mission is the development and testing of clinical interventions delivered via the Internet, with active research programs in scalable health behavior change, smoking cessation, and alcohol use reduction. The center is led by faculty including Kara Wiseman, PhD, MPH, and operates as part of UVA's broader research ecosystem of approximately 20 departments and 7 research centers.

The center does not operate as a commercial business; instead, it draws on the University of Virginia School of Medicine's research infrastructure, including access to 198 NIH-funded principal investigators, shared core facilities, and collaborations with affiliated units such as the Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research. Research outputs are disseminated through academic publications, conference presentations, and the broader UVA School of Medicine marketing apparatus (newsletter, social media, and earned media in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, CBS News, NPR affiliates, and The Guardian).

Because it is housed within a public state university, the center has no separate revenue stream; funding flows through UVA's overall research budget, which totals $269M in research funding, alongside state appropriations, federal grants (predominantly NIH), and philanthropic contributions. The unit does not list products, patents, applications, APIs, or commercial partnerships — its outputs are research studies, published findings, and the training of medical and graduate students within the School of Medicine.

Name

Center for Behavioral Health and Technology

Legal name

University of Virginia School of Medicine

Website

https://med.virginia.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Center for Behavioral Health and Technology is an academic research center within the University of Virginia School of Medicine that develops and tests internet-delivered clinical interventions for behavioral health, including smoking cessation, alcohol use reduction, and scalable health behavior change programs.

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akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Charlottesville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Research Funding: UVA School of Medicine generates revenue through federal research grants including NIH funding ($269M total research funding), state appropriations, and private philanthropy supporting medical research programs including the Center for Behavioral Health and Technology.
2. Medical Education Tuition: Revenue from tuition and fees for medical students. In-state tuition ranges from $52,828-$56,700; out-of-state tuition ranges from $64,984-$71,046 per year.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Center for Behavioral Health and Technology is a research unit within the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Department of Public Health Sciences that develops and tests clinical interventions delivered via the Internet. Its work focuses on scalable health behavior change interventions, including smoking cessation programs, alcohol use research, and other technology-enabled behavioral healthcare delivery models.

Product overview

No product information for Center for Behavioral Health and Technology was found in the provided source data. The sources cover University of Virginia School of Medicine institutional information including education programs, research, clinical care, community outreach, financial aid, and various departmental news. No specific products, services, or technology offerings associated with a Center for Behavioral Health and Technology were identified in the scraped content.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Behavioral Health Research Studies

Quantifiable outcome

• 99% residency match rate for MD graduates
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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API detail

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Inova Health System FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 November 2016UVA and Inova formed a research, education, and cancer research and clinical trials partnership. The partnership includes a research institute at the Inova Center for Personalized Health focused on genomics, functional biology, bioinformatics, precision medicine, and related translational research. Additionally, a regional campus of the UVA School of Medicine is located at Inova, with approximately 30-42 students completing clerkship and post-clerkship training. The partnership aims to recruit eminent researchers, facilitate innovation, and commercialize new discoveries.
• George Mason UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 November 2016Part of of the broader ICPH research ecosystem, Inova announced a research partnership with George Mason University focused on joint center for applied clinical proteomics and policy ecosystem for personalized health.
• Department of Public Health SciencescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Center for Behavioral Health and Technology operates within the Department of Public Health Sciences at UVA School of Medicine, collaborating with other departments on health behavior research and interventions.
• Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology ResearchcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKara Wiseman, PhD, MPH conducts research in collaboration with the Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, which received a $1.2 million gift from the Beirne Carter Foundation to establish a Human Immunophenotyping Initiative.

Scale indicators16 records

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Akili Interactive: Digital therapeutics company developing FDA-cleared, evidence-based cognitive and behavioral interventions (e.g., EndeavorRx) — comparable as a digitally-delivered, clinically-validated behavioral therapeutics developer with an academic research foundation.
• Big Health: Digital therapeutics company developing evidence-based, internet-delivered behavioral health interventions (e.g., Sleepio for insomnia, Daylight for anxiety) — directly comparable to the center's focus on clinically tested, scalable behavioral health digital interventions.
• Limbic: Digital mental health platform delivering evidence-based, internet-delivered CBT and other behavioral interventions, directly comparable to the center's focus on scalable, technology-enabled behavioral health care.
• Pelago (formerly Quit Genius): Digital therapeutics company specializing in substance use management (tobacco, alcohol, opioid), directly comparable to the center's smoking cessation and alcohol use research focus on technology-enabled interventions.
• Pear Therapeutics (historical): Pioneer in prescription digital therapeutics for substance use and behavioral health conditions; historically the closest commercial analog to evidence-based digital behavioral interventions before its wind-down.

Broad incumbents

• Cerebral: Telehealth platform focused on mental health and anxiety/depression treatment; a broad commercial incumbent with overlapping behavioral health technology offerings.
• Talkspace: Established online therapy and behavioral health platform operating at scale; comparable as a broader commercial incumbent delivering internet-based behavioral health services overlapping with the center's research domain.
• Lyra Health: Large employer-sponsored mental health benefits platform offering therapy, coaching, and digital tools; a broader incumbent in the same behavioral health technology category the center researches.
• BetterHelp: Largest consumer-facing online counseling platform; comparable as a broad incumbent providing internet-delivered behavioral health services that overlap with the center's area of study.

Emerging players

• Stanford Center for Clinical Excellence in Behavioral Health: Academic peer institution conducting clinical behavioral health research and digital intervention trials; structurally comparable as another university-based research center pursuing similar technology-enabled behavioral health work.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/medicineuva?lang=en
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCjF1Mkjn9mhT130qDBVLnPQ
• Facebookfacebook.com/Medicine.Virginia
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/school/university-of-virginia-school-of-medicine

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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