Academy Fellow

I am an expert in Clinical Psychology with expertise in digital mental health interventions for adults and young people with depression and anxiety. I am interested in developing accessible, affordable, effective and scalable psychological and lifestyle-based treatment programs for these common mental health conditions, testing their efficacy in clinical trials, and making them available to the community. I am particularly interested in how digital mental health and artificial intelligence tools can be used to deliver better, more personalised care for mental health. Most of my research is focused on depression and anxiety, but my work also focuses on the overlap between these conditions and chronic physical illness, anxiety about illness (called health anxiety), and how misinformation and online health information (like searching Dr google) affect how people interact with the healthcare system. 

Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney based at the Black Dog Institute

Royal Society of NSW

ARC Postgraduate Council Outstanding Research Supervisor Award

Tracey Goodall Early Career Researcher Award

The MHS Early Career Researcher Award

NSW Young Tall Poppy Award

1.       Newby, J.*, Gupta, S*, et al. (2025). Brief digital interventions for psychological distress: An AI response-adaptive randomized clinical trial. JAMA Network Open, 8(10):e2540502, doi:0.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.40502.

2.       Steele, K. ,… Newby, J. (2025). Intensive 7-day internet cognitive behavioural therapy for social anxiety disorder: a randomised controlled trial. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 115, 103073, doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2025.103073.

3.       Kikas, K., …Newby, J. (2026). Illness anxiety disorder and somatic symptom disorder: Similarities and differences in health-anxious individuals. PLOS One, 21(3), e0342493. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0342493.

4.     Joubert, A. …Newby, J. (2023). Managing rumination and worry: A randomised controlled trial of an internet intervention targeting repetitive negative thinking delivered with and without clinician guidance. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 168, 104378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2023.104378 PMID: 37595354

5.     Listiyandini, R., …Newby, J. (2025). A culturally adapted internet-delivered mindfulness intervention with counsellor guidance for reducing distress among Indonesian university students: a randomised wait-list controlled trial. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 193, 104827. doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2025.104827