Selected projects

DBT for suicide and psychosis

Recording of a talk for the Ohio EPICENTER Speaker Series about Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for people with psychosis.

Modeling Baltimore Ceasefire

Evaluation of Baltimore Ceasefire 365, a locally organized, non-governmental coalition against murder. Now published in the American Journal of Public Health. See the final analysis markdown here.

Metadata

Built the Android app for Josh Begley's Metadata app, which sends you a notification when U.S. drone strikes are reported. Both Apple and Google removed these. You can see an archive of the Google Play page here.

Fentanyl

The fentanyl crisis

Bayesian multilevel modeling of overdose mortality trends in Indianapolis, later published in Addictive Behaviors.

Mapping police killings

Unarmed and armed. Grandparents and children. Black and white. How did they die? What were their names?

Chrome extension

Replaces some words that are predictably used to dehumanize people with different words that are more humanizing.

Archives + Absences

Android version of the app. Notifies you whenever police kill someone in the United States.

Interview with Alexander Niculescu and Peter Phalen about genetic/clinical android application

Suicide risk assessment

This app has been used in combination with biomarker data to predict suicidality among people with mental health diagnoses. The project attracted some press.

Map of West Africa

Global mental health

European-style mental healthcare has had to adapt to West Africa, where traditional healers typically get more respect than psychiatrists.

Psychiatric restraints

Psychiatric restraints

In hospitals across the USA, emotionally distressed patients are regularly cuffed and strapped to chairs, sometimes for hours. In Guinea this doesn't really happen. What can we learn?

A French character

Translation

Two French translations published into the public domain for Project Gutenberg. They're available for free and accessible on e-readers.

Contact Me

peter.phalen@gmail.com
pphalen@som.umaryland.edu