2023 Super Analytics Challenge Overview

The National Institute of Mental Health estimated that in 2021, about one in five U.S. adults (18.5 percent) experiences mental illness each year and that around 5.5 percent of all adults live with a serious mental illness. However, less than half (47.2 percent) of adults with a mental illness received mental health services in the past year. While the realities of mental health are now less stigmatized and more openly addressed, there is a shortage of providers to meet the need for the services requested. The 2023 challenge focused on addressing this shortage of behavioral health and mental health workers. Download the challenge.

Projects presented at the 2023 finale included:

• Connecting veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to pet companionship
• AI-enhancing accessibility to mental health support through the Allegheny County website
• Supporting assimilation through wellness for incarcerated individuals

Executive support and guidance were provided by executive leaders from:

Impact Highlights

Media Mentions

Crossing Paths: Three Years of Super Analytics Change

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Student Teams

Solution Summary

Team 3 provided solutions to increase accessibility to mental health support through Allegheny County Public Schools and Student Assistance (SAP). They focused on curriculum-based, selective school-based, and SAP-related solutions, including the utilization of strategic book and exercises for students with academic challenges, raising funds to support mental health programs, and the development of a digital screening process for SAP, and more. 

Solution Summary

Team 1 addressed enabling community leaders to make insight-driven decisions to better respond to the ongoing youth mental health crisis.

Solution Summary

To reduce veteran’s stigma of seeking help for PTSD, Team 2 provided an alternative therapy for improving mental health. They focused on animal assisted therapy, connecting veterans to pet adoption centers based upon demand and location, and establishing a veterans pet adoption program in Allegheny County. 

Solution Summary

Improving access to mental health resources with limiting funding, Team 4 designed three new features to further developed an integrated website for Allegheny County Mental Health Resources. These new features include:

• Contains primary mental health services to perform human frontline work.
• Provides clear guidance and educational information.
• Embeds automated classification system directing to mental health professional help.

Solution Summary

Team 5 addressed the identification of mental health needs and forms of intervention for prisoners and recently incarcerated individuals through machine learning. They provided solutions to optimize behavioral health services in correctional settings, fill gaps in services, and the use of artificial intelligence.

Advisory Committee

Onyinyechi Daniel, Vice President, Data & Analytics Strategy, Highmark Health

Andy Hannah, President, Othot

Zachary Markovitis, Vice President & Local Practice Lead, Results for America

Josh Morgan, Advisory National Director of Behavioral Health, SAS

Albrecht Powell, Managing Director, Data & Applied Intelligency & Pittsburgh Office Managing Director, Accenture

Audrey Russo, President & CEO, Pittsburgh Technology Council

Manpreet Saini, Practice Head, Analytics & Insight, North America, SAP

Bob Schukai, Executive Vice President, Technology, Mastercard

Joni Schwager, Executive Director, Staunton Farm Foundation

Sara Moeller, Associate Dean, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business

Pamela Peele, Associate Professor of Health Economics, Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

Christopher Barlow, Director, Corporate Engagement and Career Services, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business

Chahee Park, Co-Student Body Representative

Tasmia Afroze, Co-Student Body Representative