#EquallyWellAu23 will help reducing the life expectancy gap for people living with mental health challenges.

If YOU want to be part of the change, sign up now for this FREE event (25-27 July).

The programme looks amazing! Equally Well Au Equally Well UK Closing The Gap Network

🌟 #EquallyWellAu23 🌟

Working together to achieve health equity for people with severe mental illness.

We're really excited to be covering the Equally Well Au National Symposium in Sydney next week.

Dr Laura Hemming will be live tweeting
Justin Chapman will be live blogging

📢New findings show a mixed picture of student wellbeing in relation to the Covid pandemic 📢

The majority of participants maintained broadly consistent wellbeing over time. Some experienced worsened wellbeing during the pandemic, and a minority thrived
tinyurl.com/3vpx3vwb

Some of our SMaRteN collaborators involved in brilliant work published today. A longitudinal cohort study saw researchers track wellbeing trajectories before, during, and after COVID restrictions.
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frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

📣Our follow-up survey from the Closing The Gap Network OWLS study has been published in CABI Human-Animal Interactions: the influence of #animal ownership on #mentalhealth for people with severe mental illness 🐾

Available open access ⬇️
cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/ha…

Really really pleased with how our interactive mental health turned out for #BiBFest Ruth Webber and Olivia Taylor did a fantastic job!!

New findings from Closing The Gap Network showed that whilst people with severe mental ill health are more likely to have a poor diet & be less active; they are just as likely to want to make lifestyle changes to improve their health.
Read more in our latest blog: arc-yh.nihr.ac.uk/news-events-an…

#HealthEquity #MentalHealthEquity #Glastonbury ⁦Closing The Gap: Health and Wellbeing Cohort⁩ ⁦Closing The Gap Network⁩

Congratulations to Professor Carolyn Chew-Graham, Professor of General Practice Research in the School of Medicine, who has been awarded an OBE for services to General Practice and Patient Care, and to Primary Care Research 👏🎖️

Read more ➡️ bit.ly/465YJ0x

Research can improve lives.
Research can save lives.

Loads of appreciation to all those participating and conducting research.
#Red4Research

P.S. Enjoy the weekend ahead!!☀️

We presented Hidden: Joanna's Story at York Festival of Ideas with Closing The Gap Network last week. There were powerful discussions around closing the gap for those affected by #digitalexclusion , with plenty of pledges made.

Explore more immersive Hidden pieces here: madebymortals.org/hidden/

Follow us to find out what the BALM study is doing to help improve men's health. MEN'S HEALTH WEEK 2023 - JUNE 12-18, 2023 #MENSHEALTHWEEK

So glad we were able to attend this event earlier today!
Amazing panel, excellent chairing by Dr Claire Carswell, engaged audience and a hot topic for discussion; as hot as the weather this afternoon!
#PhysicalHealth #Diabetes #SMI #ClosingTheMortalityGap
#DoingMoreDoingBetter