InsightTM mHealth Annual Workshop
Up to 20 applicants will be accepted to attend the December 17-19, 2025 workshop. We anticipate that we will receive more applications than we can accommodate this year. Thus, some applicants may not be able to attend the 2025 workshop. Priority will be given to faculty and post-doctoral fellows at academic institutions that aim to conduct mHealth research.
Workshop Schedule
Particulars of Workshop
Dates of workshop: December 17-19, 2025
Workshop organizer and primary presenter: Michael Businelle, PhD (see bio here). Additional experts may present on relevant topics (e.g., machine learning, cleaning intensive longitudinal datasets).
Workshop location: Oklahoma City; All accepted applicants will attend all 3 days of workshop in person (there is NOT a remote attendance option). Suggested options for hotel accommodations will be shared with all workshop attendees.
Application deadline: October 6, 2025. Participation in the InsightTM mHealth workshop is by invitation only. The workshop will be limited to 20 individuals selected from the pool of applicants.
Notification sent to those selected to attend the workshop: October 15, 2025
Workshop fee ($500) due: November 3, 2025 (to the University of Oklahoma via credit card). Workshop fees include lunch for each of the 3 workshop days.
Eligibility Requirements
Hold a doctoral level degree (PhD, ScD, MD, DDS, DVM, etc.), in any of the following:
- Behavioral Science
- Social Science
- Medicine
- Public Health
About the InsightTM mHealth Platform: The InsightTM mHealth platform enables researchers to build, test, and launch technology-based assessment and intervention tools on the Apple and Android platforms. To date, InsightTM has been used to support 115 research studies (over 60 with NIH funding) in 5 languages, including five studies that have collected data outside the US. These studies have used InsightTM to identify and intervene upon environmental, cognitive, affective, physiological, and behavioral antecedents of health risk factors. InsightTM software is customizable for each research project, uses a web-based electronic data capture system (EDC) for easy access across multiple browsers, and uses architecture that enables the incorporation of new features. Users of this service log into our web-based EDC and follow step-by-step guidance to create and manage research studies, enroll and monitor study participants, create questionnaire items, create different types of surveys (e.g., baseline, follow-up, random, daily, participant-initiated, sensor-initiated) and create specific assessment rules (e.g., two vs. four random assessments per day). Data are encrypted within the smartphone application and automatically and securely uploaded into the mHealth server database. Encrypted data can be downloaded from our mHealth servers by approved users at any time. Note that InsightTM works offline (e.g., in Airplane mode) after initial application download.