Dr Alexandra Pitman will be speaking about 'Research Updates on the Impact of Suicide Bereavement' at @SuicideandCo's Sector Summit on Feb 29th.

The event brings together experts in bereavement and suicide, to focus on suicide bereavement service delivery.

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📢NEW RESEARCH ALERT
MQ is really proud to announce Dr Alexandra Burton from Social Biobehavioural Research Group has been awarded an MQ Fellowship.

Alex will be studying #SocialPrescribing and the benefits for people with severe mental illnesses.

Find out more in this interview 👉
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Last chance to apply for this scheme & spend 4 years UCL Institute of Mental Health studying the mental health topic(s) of your choice from every imaginable angle, with input from lived experience advisors & an extensive range of supervisors, benefiting clinical care & public health.

Dermot was a lovely man, it’s a terrible loss. We will all miss him.

Principal Clinical Research Fellow UCL Global Engagement an exciting career development opportunity for a clinical scientist with an amazing team at UCL. I will personally provide the successful candidate with my time, mentorship and support. NIHR Global Health
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Great to see this report out, which I co-wrote with Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. During the COVID pandemic there were an extra 244 premature deaths/100,000 people in people in contact with secondary care mental health services, compared to 47/100,000 in those not in contact: gov.uk/government/pub…

Really honoured to win this award for my PhD thesis investigating the physical health of people with SMI using electronic medical records, funded by Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. Big thank to my brilliant supervisors (@osborn_ucl and Prof Joseph F Hayes) and thesis committee (Gabi Price and Louise Marston)

Our colleagues David Osborn & Alexandra Pitman with peers Garrett Kidd & Louise Marston from UCL Primary Care & Population Health recently published a paper on suicidal behaviour in LGB adults in England. You can read an overview here
UCL Psychiatry UCL Institute of Mental Health UCL Brain Sciences
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Congratulations to Naomi Launders and Jonathan Rogers for your achievement in the Michael King Prize!

We're so proud to see Naomi Launders win the Michael King Prize for best mental health thesis in 2022/23 👏 an amazing achievement.

You can read more about Naomi's project & find her publications here 🔗 arc-nt.nihr.ac.uk/research/proje…

#SMI #multimorbidity #physicalhealth #mentalhealth

UCL-led research for the NIHR School for Public Health Research found that overall incidence of depression, anxiety and stress increased over the first two decades of this century, with rates more than doubling in 16–24-year-olds. ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/new… @jendykxhoorn

Louise Marston David Osborn Garrett Kidd UCL Mental Health Sciences MScs UCL Psychiatry UCL Primary Care & Population Health Great to see our Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology article picked up in the mental health section of The BMJ Seven Days in Medicine 7-13 June 2023 - Gay and bisexual adults show higher risk of self-harm
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At MQ we do our best to make the talks & panel discussions from our events publicly available. Don't miss this one on 'Physical health of people w severe mental illnesses' presented by David Osborn chaired by Pauline Whelan at our last conference w DATAMIND - HDR UK Hub for Mental Health Research

In April David Osborn presented at the #DataScience meeting discussing:
-early onset of multiple long-term conditions
-considering social, pharmacological, health service & behavioural factors
-limitations in existing methods

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This study investigates potential mediators in the relationship between gender & mental health during the first wave of Covid-19 in the UK

Read the study from Kate Dotsikas, Liam Crosby, Anne McMunn, David Osborn, Kate Waters & Jennifer Dykxhoorn here buff.ly/3EgNlCh

New #SPHR research led by @jendykxhoorn explored the incidence of depression, anxiety and stress in the last two decades with important differences seen between population groups

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UCL Health of the Public UCL Institute of Mental Health David Osborn #MentalHealth

Delighted to have been awarded funding for a new Mental Health Policy Research Unit, announced today - with a team overlapping with the first MHPRU Mental Health Policy Research Unit, plus some excellent new team members and collaborators. More details soon!

Alan Simpson 💙 UCL Psychiatry Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience…

Delighted to have won the Alzheimer's Society #Dementia Future leader award this year. Thanks to everyone who has supported me in my career so far

From October 1st I will be Professor of Clinical Trial Statistics (statistics for other study designs still available). I would like to thank Irwin Nazareth for helping me write the application, the internal and external referees for my application and everyone who I work with.

Many congratulations Jen. So well deserved!!