Biography
Dr Rina Dutta is a Clinician Scientist Fellow of the Health Foundation in partnership with the Academy of Medical Sciences. She works at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences, King’s College London.
Her current 5-year research programme is e-HOST-IT: Electronic health records to predict HOspitalised Suicide attempts: Targeting Information Technology solutions.
She is Principal Investigator of a new 3-year research grant from the MRC and MRF for a project entitled: Social media, Smartphone use and Self-harm in Young People (3S-YP study)
In 2012 Rina founded the SUicide, self-harM and Mortality InTerest group (SUMMIT) at King’s Health Partners.
Rina has sub-specialised in Liaison and Occupational Psychiatry. Since 2009 she has worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist for the National Affective Disorders Service at the Maudsley Hospital, providing a specialist clinic for health care professionals with mood disorders.
Research Interests
- Suicidal behaviour and self-harm
- Social media and mental health
- Causes of premature mortality
- Mental and physical co-morbidities
- Use of datasets for clinical research and data science
Expertise and Public Engagement
Dr Dutta’s work about using ‘big data’ and social media to benefit mental health has been used by the Academy of Medical Sciences (e.g. in March 2018) to profile the research they are funding and its implications for society. https://acmedsci.ac.uk/more/news/using-big-data-and-social-media-to-benefit-mental-health
She has been media-trained by the Academy of Medical Sciences and was involved in the first BBC showcase of only 11 scientists on 15th January 2018.
She has done a live radio broadcast on BBC radio 4 with Jenni Murray on Woman’s Hour, a prerecorded expert opinion for BBC radio 4 regarding self-harm and live radio appearances on Radio London.
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Cusick, M., Velupillai, S., Downs, J., Campion, T. R., Sholle, E. T., Dutta, R. & Pathak, J., 23 Oct 2022, In: Journal of Affective Disorders Reports. 10, p. 100430 1 p., 100430. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2022.100430
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Ayre, K., Liu, X., Howard, L. M., Dutta, R. & Munk-Olsen, T., 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Psychological Medicine. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721004876
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Cliffe, C., Seyedsalehi, A., Vardavoulia, K., Bittar, A., Velupillai, S., Shetty, H., Schmidt, U. & Dutta, R., 31 Dec 2021, In: BMJ Open. 11, 12, e053808. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053808
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Francis, E. R., Fonseca De Freitas, D., Colling, C., Pritchard, M., Kadra-Scalzo, G., Viani, N., Chaturvedi, J., Denee, T. R., Kerr, C., Desai, M., Scott, G., Shetty, H., Broadbent, M., Chandran, D., Downs, J., Velupillai, S., Khondoker, M., Stewart, R., Dutta, R. & Hayes, R. D., 24 Nov 2021, In: BJPsych Open. 7, 6, e223. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2021.1054
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Ive, J., Gkotsis, G., Dutta, R., Stewart, R. & Velupillai, S., 2018, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Keyboard to Clinic, CLPsych 2018 at the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HTL 2018. Loveys, K., Niederhoffer, K., Prud�hommeaux, E., Resnik, R. & Resnik, P. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 69-77 9 p. (Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Keyboard to Clinic, CLPsych 2018 at the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HTL 2018). Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
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Cliffe, C., Pitman, A., Sedgwick, R., Pritchard, M., Dutta, R. & Rowe, S., 25 Jun 2021, In: BJPsych Open. 7, 4, p. e116 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2021.946
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Canal-Rivero, M., Ayesa-Arriola, R., Setién-Suero, E., Crespo-Facorro, B., Arango, C., Dutta, R. & Lopez-Morinigo, J. D., 1 Oct 2021, In: Journal of Clinical Medicine. 10, 19, 4604. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10194604
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Widnall, E., Epstein, S., Polling, C., Velupillai, S., Jewell, A., Dutta, R., Simonoff, E., Stewart, R., Gilbert, R., Ford, T., Hotopf, M., Hayes, R. D. & Downs, J., 29 Apr 2022, In: BMC Medicine. 20, 1, p. 137 137. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-022-02329-w
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Ayre, K., Bittar, A., Kam, J., Verma, S., Howard, L. M. & Dutta, R., Aug 2021, In: PLoS ONE. 16, 8 August, p. e0253809 e0253809. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253809
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Arias de la Torre, J., Ronaldson, A., Vilagut, G., Serrano-Blanco, A., Molina, A. J., Martín, V., Valderas, J. M., Dutta, R., Dregan, A. & Alonso, J., 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Affective Disorders. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review