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Margaret Heslin

Dr Margaret Heslin

Senior Lecturer in Health Economics and Epidemiology

Biography

Dr Margaret Heslin is a Senior Lecturer in Health Economics and Epidemiology at the Health Service and Population Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London.  

Margaret has a BSc in Psychology, an MSc in Clinical and Public Health Aspects of Addiction and a PhD in Epidemiology. Her PhD was title “An Epidemiological Investigation into the Onset, Course and Outcome of Psychotic Major Depression and Schizoaffective Disorder, Depressed Type”.

Margaret is an interdisciplinary researcher with knowledge, skills and experience in health services research, epidemiology and health economics. She is currently working on a portfolio of mental health research including trials of psychological therapies for people with psychotic experiences, evaluations of interventions for trafficked people, and randomised controlled trials of supported mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for adults experiencing depression.

Research Interests

  • Epidemiology of severe mental illness
  • Health Economics in mental illness
  • Innovative evaluations
  • Health services research
  • Data linkages and use of routinely collected data
  • Severe mental illness and HIV
  • Psychosis
  • Psychotic major depression

Expertise and Public Engagement

Margaret created and directed the IoPPN Youth Awards from 2013-2018. The awards were created to encourage and help young people from deprived areas with an interest in science, engineering, technology and maths to stay in education and pursue a career in this area. Find out more about IoPPN Youth Awards.  

Margaret was also the IoPPN London Champion from 2017-2018, responsible for supporting and promoting IoPPN based engagement and outreach activities with local communities and in London more widely: Read more about IoPPN London Champions

    Research

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    King's Health Economics

    King's Health Economics, led by Professor Sarah Byford (Director), and Dr Barbara Barrett (Deputy Director), consists of a team of health economists with expertise in designing and conducting high quality economic evaluations of healthcare programmes and policies that contribute to healthcare policy and practice in the UK and abroad. 

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    Social Epidemiology Research Group

    The Social Epidemiology Research Group primarily focuses on how social contexts, interactions and experiences shape the occurrence, outcome, and management of mental health problems. Our goal is to provide evidence on the relationships between all aspects of society and mental health problems that can inform the development of interventions, mental health services, public health programmes, and social policies in order to prevent the onset and improve outcomes of mental health problems.

    News

    Higher rates of HIV diagnoses found amongst mental health service users

    New research has found HIV is 2.5 times more frequent in people who use mental health services than the general population in South London.

    HIV

    New research investigates the effectiveness of perinatal mental health services

    Researchers at King’s College London investigated the clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and service satisfaction of a range of specialist perinatal...

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    Exposure to air pollution linked with increased mental health service-use, new study finds

    Exposure to traffic-related air pollution is associated with increased mental health service-use among people recently diagnosed with psychotic and mood...

    Pollution

      Research

      iStock-KHE 1800
      King's Health Economics

      King's Health Economics, led by Professor Sarah Byford (Director), and Dr Barbara Barrett (Deputy Director), consists of a team of health economists with expertise in designing and conducting high quality economic evaluations of healthcare programmes and policies that contribute to healthcare policy and practice in the UK and abroad. 

      centre-society-mental-health
      Social Epidemiology Research Group

      The Social Epidemiology Research Group primarily focuses on how social contexts, interactions and experiences shape the occurrence, outcome, and management of mental health problems. Our goal is to provide evidence on the relationships between all aspects of society and mental health problems that can inform the development of interventions, mental health services, public health programmes, and social policies in order to prevent the onset and improve outcomes of mental health problems.

      News

      Higher rates of HIV diagnoses found amongst mental health service users

      New research has found HIV is 2.5 times more frequent in people who use mental health services than the general population in South London.

      HIV

      New research investigates the effectiveness of perinatal mental health services

      Researchers at King’s College London investigated the clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and service satisfaction of a range of specialist perinatal...

      C0091669-Newborn_baby_s_grip_reflex-SPL

      Exposure to air pollution linked with increased mental health service-use, new study finds

      Exposure to traffic-related air pollution is associated with increased mental health service-use among people recently diagnosed with psychotic and mood...

      Pollution