Ante Prodan
Biographic Data
| ID | 7642491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ante Prodan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ante |
| FAMILY NAME | Prodan |
| SIGNATURE | PRODAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9684-7967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Rethinking AI in youth mental health
The transformative role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in youth mental health care as intelligent agents that can support patient engagement and augment healthcare delivery has been explored in this commentary. By acting as personalized virtual assistants for both patients and providers, LLMs have the potential to offer real-time, context-aware support, improving administrative workflows within mental health services. However, there is increasin…
Building systemic resilience, productivity and well-being
Measuring, Modeling, and Forecasting the Mental Wealth of Nations
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the deep links and fragility of economic, health and social systems. Discussions of reconstruction include renewed interest in moving beyond GDP and recognizing “human capital”, “brain capital”, “mental capital”, and “wellbeing” as assets fundamental to economic reimagining, productivity, and prosperity. This paper describes how the conceptualization of Mental Wealth provides an important framing for measuring an…
Sound Decision Making in Uncertain Times
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the significant value of systems modelling in supporting proactive and effective public health decision making despite the complexities and uncertainties that characterise an evolving crisis. The same approach is possible in the field of mental health. However, a commonly levelled (but misguided) criticism prevents systems modelling from being more routinely adopted, namely, that the presence of uncertainty arou…
Optimizing Strategies for Improving Mental Health in Victoria, Australia during the Covid-19 Era
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the mental health of populations and highlighted the limitations of mental health care systems. As the trajectory of the pandemic and the economic recovery are still uncertain, decision tools are needed to help evaluate the best interventions to improve mental health outcomes. We developed a system dynamics model that captures causal relationships among population, demographics, post-secondary education,…
A Pilot Case-Control Study of the Social Media Activity Following Cluster and Non-Cluster Suicides in Australia
Social media may play a role in the "contagion" mechanism thought to underpin suicide clusters. Our pilot case-control study presented a novel methodological approach to examining whether Facebook activity following cluster and non-cluster suicides differed. We used a scan statistic to identify suicide cluster cases occurring in spatiotemporal clusters and matched each case to 10 non-cluster control suicides. We identified the Facebook accounts o…
The Science of Complex Systems Is Needed to Ameliorate the Impacts of Covid-19 on Mental Health
Jo-An Atkinson1,2*Yun Ju Christine Song1Kathleen R. Merikangas3Adam Skinner1Ante Prodan1,2,4Frank Iorfino1Louise Freebairn1,5Danya Rose1Nicholas Ho1Jacob Crouse1Vadim Zipunnikov6Ian B. Hickie1
The Impact of Reducing Psychiatric Beds on Suicide Rates
There has been ongoing debate regarding the impact of reductions in psychiatric beds on suicide rates, and the potential effect of reallocation of acute hospital funding to community-based mental health programs and services. Computer simulation offers significant value in advancing such debate by providing a robust platform for exploring strategic resource allocation scenarios before they are implemented in the real world. We report an applicati…
Policy options for endgame planning in tobacco control
These results suggest that any prudent approach to endgame planning should seek to build on rather than replace existing tobacco control measures that have proved effective to date. Additional interventions that can promote cessation are expected to be more successful in reducing smoking prevalence than interventions focussing exclusively on preventing initiation
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The Impact of Reducing Psychiatric Beds on Suicide Rates
There has been ongoing debate regarding the impact of reductions in psychiatric beds on suicide rates, and the potential effect of reallocation of acute hospital funding to community-based mental health programs and services. Computer simulation offers significant value in advancing such debate by providing a robust platform for exploring strategic resource allocation scenarios before they are implemented in the real world. We report an applicati…
Policy options for endgame planning in tobacco control
These results suggest that any prudent approach to endgame planning should seek to build on rather than replace existing tobacco control measures that have proved effective to date. Additional interventions that can promote cessation are expected to be more successful in reducing smoking prevalence than interventions focussing exclusively on preventing initiation
The Science of Complex Systems Is Needed to Ameliorate the Impacts of Covid-19 on Mental Health
Jo-An Atkinson1,2*Yun Ju Christine Song1Kathleen R. Merikangas3Adam Skinner1Ante Prodan1,2,4Frank Iorfino1Louise Freebairn1,5Danya Rose1Nicholas Ho1Jacob Crouse1Vadim Zipunnikov6Ian B. Hickie1
A Pilot Case-Control Study of the Social Media Activity Following Cluster and Non-Cluster Suicides in Australia
Social media may play a role in the "contagion" mechanism thought to underpin suicide clusters. Our pilot case-control study presented a novel methodological approach to examining whether Facebook activity following cluster and non-cluster suicides differed. We used a scan statistic to identify suicide cluster cases occurring in spatiotemporal clusters and matched each case to 10 non-cluster control suicides. We identified the Facebook accounts o…
Measuring, Modeling, and Forecasting the Mental Wealth of Nations
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the deep links and fragility of economic, health and social systems. Discussions of reconstruction include renewed interest in moving beyond GDP and recognizing “human capital”, “brain capital”, “mental capital”, and “wellbeing” as assets fundamental to economic reimagining, productivity, and prosperity. This paper describes how the conceptualization of Mental Wealth provides an important framing for measuring an…
Sound Decision Making in Uncertain Times
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the significant value of systems modelling in supporting proactive and effective public health decision making despite the complexities and uncertainties that characterise an evolving crisis. The same approach is possible in the field of mental health. However, a commonly levelled (but misguided) criticism prevents systems modelling from being more routinely adopted, namely, that the presence of uncertainty arou…
Optimizing Strategies for Improving Mental Health in Victoria, Australia during the Covid-19 Era
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the mental health of populations and highlighted the limitations of mental health care systems. As the trajectory of the pandemic and the economic recovery are still uncertain, decision tools are needed to help evaluate the best interventions to improve mental health outcomes. We developed a system dynamics model that captures causal relationships among population, demographics, post-secondary education,…
Building systemic resilience, productivity and well-being
Rethinking AI in youth mental health
The transformative role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in youth mental health care as intelligent agents that can support patient engagement and augment healthcare delivery has been explored in this commentary. By acting as personalized virtual assistants for both patients and providers, LLMs have the potential to offer real-time, context-aware support, improving administrative workflows within mental health services. However, there is increasin…
Mental health (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (4 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works)