May is mental health awareness month (first initiated in 1949). We’d like to take this opportunity to showcase some of the mental health research happening in the University. We’ve also invited speakers to talk about large scale data available for mental health research. We very much hope you will be able to attend!

Mental health mini symposium (in-person):

• Date 19 June
• Time 2-4:30pm
• Venue Starling Lecture Theatre, Hodgkin Building, Guy’s Campus, KCL

Coffee/tea & pastries will be served

Speakers & tentative titles:

• Prof Jayati Das-Munshi (IoPPN, KCL)
  "Maximising the potential of large-scale data to tackle mental health inequalities"
• Dr Natasha Chilman (IoPPN & Population Health Sciences, KCL)
  “The public health significance of prior homelessness: findings on mental health and multimorbidity from a nationally representative survey”
• Emma Sharland & Hannah Bunk (Health Research Group, Office for National Statistics/ONS)
  “ONS census & health data linkages for mental health research”
• Hannah Bunk & Amal Khanolkar (ONS & Population health sciences, KCL)
  “Self-harm and suicide by sexual orientation, England and Wales: March 2021 to December 2023”
• Lu Liu (PhD student, Population Health Sciences, KCL)
  “Long-term outcomes of depression up to 10-years after stroke”
• Gemma Knowles & Daniel Stanyon (IoPPN, KCL)                                     "LGBTQ+ youth mental health inequalities in London and Tokyo"

To help us gauge expected number of attendees and plan for catering, please sign-up at the Eventbrite page.

Our next seminar is on 4 June – "Algorithm-supported risk prediction in medical decision making: two online experiments and some modelling" - given by Olga Kostopoulou.