Continua Advisory Board

Advised by leaders who have shaped how care, safety and digital-health systems work.

Independent expertise across healthcare, mental health, digital health, AI, governance, policy, regulation, safety, adoption and large-scale transformation.

Continua’s Advisory Board brings together distinguished leaders from healthcare, digital health, AI, clinical governance, regulation, public policy, payer and provider strategy, medical education and system transformation.

Their collective experience helps keep our work clinically grounded, ethically responsible, strategically robust and focused on measurable improvements in safety, access, equity and outcomes.

Why this board matters

Expert challenge for a field where trust, safety and implementation matter.

Mental-health and suicide-prevention solutions need more than good ideas. They need clinical safety, evidence, governance, adoption pathways, implementation judgement and a clear view of how health systems actually make decisions.

Continua’s advisors bring that perspective across national healthcare leadership, provider and payor strategy, digital health commercialisation, AI-enabled transformation, clinical assurance, patient safety and public policy.

Where they guide the work

Clinical grounding, responsible scale and practical implementation.

The Advisory Board supports Continua with the judgement required to turn validated mental-health solutions into trusted, scalable systems.

Clinical and safety standards

Reviewing safety, assurance, clinical governance and implementation risk so tools are designed for responsible use from the start.

System adoption

Bringing judgement from providers, payors, government, non-profits and health systems to help solutions move beyond isolated pilots.

Digital and AI transformation

Helping Continua assess where AI, analytics, data and digital health can improve access, quality, equity and outcomes.

Advisory Board

Leaders across health systems, AI, safety, policy and digital-health scale.

Professor Mike Bewick
Visionary former Deputy Director of NHS, medical school dean and strategic board advisor

Professor Mike Bewick MB.MS MRCP, MRGCP, FRCP

Professor Mike Bewick is an experienced NHS executive board medical director and strategic advisor, with nationally recognised leadership across strategy development, commissioning and clinical governance in primary and secondary care. He was previously Deputy NHS Medical Director to Sir Bruce Keogh at NHS England and has advised national policy, medical education and digital health programmes.

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Mike has led clinical and management teams locally, regionally and nationally, working with NHS England, government ministers and provider organisations on emerging strategy and clinical direction. A recognised thought leader, he has authored publications, instigated debates and helped shape clinical excellence. He developed masters level courses in digital health and served as interim Dean of Medicine at St. Mary’s University, London.

Geoffrey M. Pradella
Government, provider and payor strategy and non-profits

Geoffrey M. Pradella, B.A., B.A. (Hons), M.A., LL.M.

Geoffrey M. Pradella has 25 years of international experience across business, government, non-profits and higher education. He is Chief Executive Officer of KBH+, the ecosystem built around the Kids Brain Health Network and Foundation, and brings expertise in organisational capacity, strategy, governance, complex change, policy, human rights, community inclusion and innovation.

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Geoff has served on a wide range of medical, editorial, legal, arts and community boards. He is Chair of Genome Alberta and a Founding Director of the Canadian Museum of Recorded Music and Culture Foundation. He previously served as Chief Strategy Officer for Alberta Health Services and as Senior Strategic Advisor to the Minister of Health. His education includes an LL.M. from the University of Edinburgh, a B.A. (Honours) and M.A. from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Calgary.

Prashant Parida
AI strategy, enterprise transformation and preventive health

Prashant Parida

Prashant Parida is a technology and transformation leader at IBM focused on AI strategy, enterprise transformation and measurable societal impact. He believes technology’s highest purpose is to improve quality of life globally, particularly in healthcare and education, and co-founded Mission10X to identify transformative innovation early and scale it through talent, capital and markets.

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Prashant has more than two decades of experience at the intersection of AI, healthcare, strategy and execution. His work spans AI strategy, portfolio management, enterprise transformation and the global scaling of AI-enabled platforms. He is also the founder of PreventiveHealth.Online and collaborates with global stakeholders through UN-aligned digital health initiatives focused on responsible, evidence-based health innovation. He holds an MBA from XLRI, an engineering degree from VSS University of Technology, and executive education from Stanford University and The Wharton School.

Stuart Harrison
Clinical safety, medical device and SaMD regulation and assurance

Stuart Harrison

Stuart Harrison has helped lead the clinical safety movement in the NHS for more than 20 years, refining clinical safety and risk management systems, rewriting NHS safety standards and embedding safety engineering principles into health software assurance. He is co-founder and director of ETHOS Ltd and brings expertise across clinical safety, medical devices, security, information governance and GDPR.

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Stuart’s background is in safety-critical engineering across automation, automotive, nuclear, defence and health. He was one of the original authors, reviewers and implementers of NHS clinical safety standards and has contributed to international safety, security and effectiveness standards. He has supported clinical assurance for more than 1000 health software systems and provided subject matter input to more than 3000 service incidents with patient-safety impact. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Chartered Engineer and is studying part time for a PhD at the University of Warwick.

Hassan Chaudhury
Expert in digital health solutions, startups and ecosystem development

Hassan Chaudhury

Hassan Chaudhury works globally across digital health as an entrepreneur, advisor and former UK Government specialist. He founded a real-world evidence agency, Health iQ, which was acquired by CorEvitas, and later served as Global Digital Health Specialist at Healthcare UK, supporting firms entering and exporting from the UK across 96 countries.

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Hassan has a special interest in helping the NHS develop sustainable commercial models around data and digital. He is Head of Commercial at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust and Commercial Director for DATA-CAN, the Health Data Research Hub for Cancer. He is an Expert in Residence at The London Institute for Healthcare Engineering at King’s College London, has taught at UCL Global Business School for Health and supports founders through accelerators including the NHS Innovation Accelerator, P4 Precision Medicine Accelerator, MedTech SuperConnector, EqualityX and KQ Labs.

Steve Mackenney
Digital and AI solutions, health policy and patient outcomes

Steve Mackenney

Stephen Mackenney, M.A. (Cantab.), is a senior executive, founder and health policy specialist with more than 20 years of experience across government health systems, clinical governance, patient safety and digital health innovation. He is recognised for bridging policy, clinical standards and technology, translating what should work into what can scale across real-world health systems.

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Stephen previously served as Head of Quality and Safety at the UK Department of Health, where he helped develop national healthcare quality standards that formed the basis for inspections across England. His public-sector work also included leadership on patient safety, clinical audit, pharmaceutical pricing regulation and GP remuneration, with international secondments supporting system reform through the WHO and the European Commission. As co-founder of an advanced AI-driven healthcare analytics system, he oversaw quality-improvement projects across 11 countries and four continents.

How advice is used

Independent expertise to strengthen the work, not slow it down.

Advisors help Continua test assumptions, surface clinical and implementation risk, understand the needs of health systems and keep solutions aligned with safety, evidence, equity and measurable impact.

Grounded expertise for safer scale

Better mental-health innovation needs serious clinical, technical and system judgement.

Continua works with advisors, partners and implementation leaders who can help validated mental-health solutions reach the people who need them safely, equitably and effectively.

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Continua Mind Health

The trusted implementation layer mental health is missing.

Finding what works. Scaling what matters. Building what is missing.

Continua is a mission-led mental-health and suicide-prevention platform helping people get the right support earlier, more safely and more effectively. We work across the full continuum, from stress, anxiety and burnout, through serious illness, to self-harm, suicidal thoughts and crisis connection.

We are a sister platform to Mission10X, a partner of the Kids Brain Health Network, and built with senior leaders from healthcare, AI, clinical safety and digital-health regulation.

Why this matters

Mental health does not suffer from a shortage of concern. It suffers from a shortage of trusted pathways.

In 2022, 59.3 million US adults, 23.1%, had a mental illness. In 2023, 40% of high-school students reported feeling persistently sad or hopeless, 20% had seriously considered suicide and 9% had attempted it. These numbers are rising faster than the support around them. People wait too long, struggle to know which support to trust, and move between disconnected services. Families, teachers, coaches, employers, clinicians and community leaders see the warning signs but rarely have clear, safe guidance on what to do next.

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Limited capacity

Workforce shortages, long waits, uneven access and patchy specialist provision leave too many people unsupported.

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Fragmented pathways

Healthcare, schools, employers, families, sports bodies, payors, crisis services and digital tools all hold pieces of the answer, and rarely operate as one.

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Late intervention

Most funding, attention and infrastructure activates only once someone is already close to crisis.

04

Noisy innovation

Technology is moving fast. Not every tool is credible, safe, evidence-informed or connected to real care.

The structural gap

No single organisation in the current system is built to solve mental health end to end.

There is no shortage of effort. Payors, providers, governments, employers, schools, sports bodies, charities, technology companies and crisis services all touch the problem. The pathways between them are weak or missing.

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Payors

Not structured to coordinate the full mental-health journey across the populations they do not insure.

02

Providers

Constrained by capacity and reimbursement. Early intervention loses to short-term throughput every time.

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Governments

Move slowly, are budget-bound and fragmented across federal, state, district and agency lines.

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Employers, schools, sports and communities

See the warning signs but lack the tools, evidence and pathways to act safely.

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Awareness charities

Raise visibility but were not built to assess technology, run pilots, generate evidence or steward adoption.

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Research foundations

Fund science. Rarely deploy what comes out the other end.

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Venture capital

Backs what scales commercially. Many essential solutions, especially for the highest-risk groups, will never look like venture returns.

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Crisis services

Activate at the worst point. By then much of the preventable harm has already happened.

Continua is the connective layer between them, neutral, mission-led, evidence-disciplined, and able to build what no single one of them can.
Our model

From need, to evidence, to responsible adoption.

Continua brings healthcare, technology, research, philanthropy, lived experience, clinical expertise, community partners and mission-aligned capital together to make trusted mental-health support easier to find, safer to use, and available earlier.

Find what works

We scan mental-health, suicide-prevention, digital-health, AI, clinical practice, research and community innovation to identify approaches with credible potential.

Validate what matters

We assess evidence, claims, clinical safety, usability, workflow fit, data protection and measurable impact, with independent review and pilot trials in real settings.

Scale what is ready

We connect effective solutions to pilot sites, partners, funders, institutions and communities, with implementation playbooks that travel.

Build what is missing

Where no adequate solution exists, we create or incubate therapist-supported and AI-enabled tools with safety designed in from the start.

How it works

Seven steps from need to impact.

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Identify need

Where are people falling through gaps?

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Scan what exists

Which tools, services, models or research show promise?

3

Review credibility

Assess evidence, safety, privacy, equity and usability.

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Pilot responsibly

Test with the right safeguards, partners and metrics.

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Support adoption

Help institutions implement what works in real settings.

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Build or incubate

Create new tools where the current market does not meet need.

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Report impact

Share what works, what does not and what should scale.

Built in, not bolted on

Suicide prevention cannot begin only at the moment of crisis.

Risk builds through stress, isolation, trauma, injury, identity loss, substance use, depression, relationship breakdown, financial pressure, transition and untreated illness. Continua is designed to reach people earlier, recognise risk sooner, support trusted adults, connect digital support to human support, and make escalation routes clearer.

Reach earlier Make trusted support visible before distress becomes acute.
Recognise sooner Improve navigation, risk signals, safety design and escalation pathways.
Connect safely Ensure technology links to human, clinical and crisis support when risk increases.
Continua is not an emergency service. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call your local emergency number now. In the United States, call, text or chat 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
Foundation, Ventures, Social Enterprises

Built to back the ideas that fit a market, and the ones that never will.

Most innovation organisations have to choose between charitable mission and commercial scale. Continua is set up to do both, with a third route for solutions that are socially essential but will never look like a venture return.

Continua Foundation, 501(c)(3)

The not-for-profit engine. Identifies, validates, pilots and funds the most promising solutions in mental health and suicide prevention. Receives grants, donations and program-related investment. Builds the evidence and the network.

Continua Ventures

The for-profit venture studio. Commercialises tools that are ready to scale through clinical, employer, payor or consumer channels. Spins out companies with mission-protected terms: access commitments for underserved groups, board governance that preserves the charitable purpose, and proceeds that flow back to the Foundation.

Sustainable Social Enterprises

Vehicles funded inside the Foundation for solutions that should exist forever but were never going to make a venture return, family guidance for high-risk transitions, support for rural and underserved groups, crisis-adjacent navigation, lived-experience-led tools. They are built to operate indefinitely on a self-sustaining basis rather than chase an exit.

Innovation Fund

An innovation fund created with Mission10X for Healthcare and targeting an initial $100M of funds. The objective is to support mission aligned ventures and solutions with the emphasis on impact while delivering returns for investors. The ecosystem should help increase the expected value of returns by supporting some ventures from idea to scale implementation.

Healthcare credibility. AI capability. Clinical discipline.

Built with the senior leaders who have shaped how the world’s most respected systems work.

Mental-health innovation cannot be judged by enthusiasm alone. It has to be safe, clinically responsible, trusted, measurable and capable of being adopted. Continua is built with that bar in mind.

Professor Mike Bewick

Former Deputy National Medical Director, NHS England. Executive Board Medical Director and Professor at UCLan Medical School. Co-creator of the UCLan Digital Health Masters.

Geoffrey M. Pradella

Health-system strategist and former CEO within the Kids Brain Health Network ecosystem. Extensive experience in government, nonprofit and provider transformation.

Stuart Harrison

Global clinical-safety and medical-device regulation expert. Decades of NHS leadership in safety and digital-health assurance frameworks.

Hassan Chaudhury

Digital-health entrepreneur and ecosystem builder with UK Government experience driving international digital-health trade, commercialisation and startup scaling.

Chris Hutchins

Former Chief Data and Analytics executive at major US health systems. Specialism in applied AI, governance and healthcare transformation.

Richard A D Jones

Serial healthcare and AI entrepreneur. Exits across AI, software and technology. Focused on turning strategic innovation into scalable business and impact models.

Sister platform. National partner.

Built inside an existing ecosystem, not from scratch.

Mission10X for Healthcare

Continua’s sister healthcare-innovation ecosystem, focused on identifying, validating and scaling solutions with step-change impact across health systems, payors, providers, governments, foundations and universities. Continua brings the Mission10X implementation discipline into mental health and suicide prevention.

Kids Brain Health Network (KBHN)

Canada’s national network for children’s neurodevelopmental disability, with more than 800 partners and a structure (Network + Foundation + Innovation Fund) that directly mirrors what Continua is building. KBHN is a named partner, strengthening Continua’s work around children, youth, families, neurodevelopment and implementation.

Founding collaborators

Funders, health systems, schools, employers, sports organisations, academic partners, clinicians, technologists and community organisations, including a Super Bowl winner in the fundraising strategy.

Founding partners

Built for partners who want to move from concern to practical support.

Funders and philanthropists

Back a platform built on transparent evidence, responsible governance, measurable impact, and the ability to support solutions that may not fit traditional commercial models.

Pilot partners

Bring priority problems, youth mental health, athletes in transition, veterans, rural access, underserved communities, family guidance, crisis-adjacent support.

Experts and innovators

Contribute clinical, academic, regulatory, AI, privacy, implementation, communications, lived-experience or technology expertise.

Operators and connectors

Open doors to health systems, schools, employers, sports organisations, payors, foundations and community networks.

Help build what is missing

Trusted mental-health and suicide-prevention support should be easier to find, safer to use, and available earlier.

Work with Continua to identify what matters, validate what works, build what is missing, and scale practical support across the full mental-health continuum.

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