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The mission of the Internet World Health Research Center (IWHRC, pronounced “I work”) is to harness the power of the Internet to reach those most in need with behavioral health interventions that are as effective as traditional interventions and that can be administered directly to them via the World Wide Web.

Our goals are:

  • To contribute to the reduction of global health disparities
  • By developing evidence-based self-help Web sites and
  • Making them available to those most in need around the world
  • At no cost to the user

Interventions based on psychological principles:

  • Have been shown to be effective for a wide range of health problems
  • Like drugs, behavioral health interventions can be standardized and tested in rigorous scientific studies
  • The advantage of behavioral health interventions or “behavioral prescriptions” is that, unlike drug treatments, they can be provided via electronic communication channels, thus making them potentially available to literally millions of people at very low cost.


Description: Talk presented at the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions in Sydney, Australia, April 6, 2011. The speaker is Ricardo F. Muñoz, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Francisco, and Chief Psychologist at San Francisco General Hospital. Main point: How we could use the Internet to provide scientifically supported health interventions at no charge to anyone in the world with access to the Web. 

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Updated: June 6, 2011