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Jayati Das-Munshi

Professor Jayati Das-Munshi

Professor of Social & Psychiatric Epidemiology

  • Honorary Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist

Biography

Professor Jayati Das-Munshi is Professor of Social & Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London and Honorary Consultant Liason Psychiatrist with South London & Maudsley NHS Trust.

Her work focuses on maximising the potential of large-scale and linked data to understand and tackle mental health inequalities, with a focus on the mental-physical health interface. Her earliest work harnessed data linkages between area-level measures and national surveys, to understand the role of neighbourhoods in patterning mental health inequities in racially minoritised people.

Subsequently, she led one of the first data linkages of census to electronic health records, at person-level, to understand the social and economic determinants of onset and outcomes in severe mental health conditions. She has also led work using linkages across routine records, to understand the reasons underlying excess mortality in people with severe mental disorders, more recently with a focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health disorders.

With Professor George Ploubidis (University College London), she co-leads the cohorts platform, in the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, where the team have undertaken cross-cohort analyses to understand impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on long-term trajectories of psychological distress. She is Co-Investigator for the ERISK cohort and for Lambeth HDRC, where she advises on data linkages.

She is Co-Director of the UKRI Population Health Improvement (PHI-UK), Population Mental Health Consortium, which she Directs with Dan Barrett (Thrive-LDN).

The PHI-UK population mental health consortium brings together 10+ partnerships across universities, local government, voluntary organisations and people with lived experience, to understand what can be done to prevent the onset of mental health problems, using insights from large-scale linked data. The consortium focusses on three challenge areas: children and young people, suicide and self-harm prevention, and multiple long-term conditions.

She has led work for the World Health Organisation (WHO), leading to guidelines for the management of physical health in people with severe mental illnesses. She is an advisor for the UK Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys, and has worked in an advisory capacity for the Office for Health Improvements and Disparities (OHID, previously Public Health England).

She is also an advisor to the Equalities Data Quality and Research Subgroup at NHS-E, which seeks to improve the quality of data collected on ethnicity and other protected characteristics across routine health records, nationally.

    Research

    Mental Health
    Social and Economic Predictors of the Severe Mental Disorders: The SEP-MD Data Linkage Study

    Linking health records and census data to advance understanding of mortality, in-patient admissions and worklessness among people with severe mental illness.

    Project status: Ongoing

    FEATURE CUSP Window
    Centre for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) London

    Supporting interdisciplinary research and innovation in and for London

    COVID-19 Ethnic Inequalities in Mental health and Multimorbidities: COVE-IMM study

    Informed by perspectives of people with lived experience, this study has explored how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated ethnic health inequalities

    Project status: Completed

    News

    A Life Less Safe: telling the real stories of health inequities through research and film

    Two new studies and an accompanying short film have described the experiences of racially minoritised groups with physical and mental health conditions...

    photo of panel at screening of a Life less Safe

    People with severe mental illness more than four times as likely to die from pneumonia compared to the general population

    New research suggests that people with severe mental illness face an increased risk of death due to infectious disease.

    Most European countries ignore patients with severe mental illness in COVID vaccine strategy despite significant risks

    New £7M research investment to investigate population-based improvement of mental health

    £7 million funding from UK Research and Innovation, has been awarded to lead partner King’s College London to establish a research theme in Population Mental...

    Crowd in London

    Applications open for three new studentships at the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health

    The ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health invite prospective students to apply for new studentships aligned with its key research areas, with a focus on...

    people walking

    Researchers call for better integration of mental health and alcohol services among minority ethnic groups

    New research shows the association between alcohol use and mental health differs across minority ethnic groups, and provides insight into people’s reasons for...

    Growing numbers of alcohol related hospital admissions linked to local spending cuts

    People with severe mental illness at 50 per cent higher risk of death following COVID-19 infection

    New research from King’s College London has found that people in the UK with severe mental illness were at increased risk of death from all causes following...

    covid sad

    Exposure to air pollution is associated with increased use of psychiatric services in people with dementia

    New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at king's College London has found exposure to air pollution is associated...

    Air-pollution

    Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study Receives £2.3m Funding

    The Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study has been backed by £2.3 million funding from the UKRI Medical Research Council to collect new...

    E-Risk-Study-logo

    Generational inequalities in mental health accelerated with the COVID-19 pandemic

    Generational inequalities in mental health widened over the course of the UK’s COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new peer-reviewed study published in the...

    deaton-inequality-hero

    People from ethnic minority backgrounds experience persisting inequality in their treatment for common mental health problems in England

    New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London has assessed the prevalence of common mental health...

    medical-appointment-doctor-healthcare-40568

    Events

    10Oct

    A Life Less Safe: invitation to a special screening at Brixton Ritzy

    A film exploring the experiences of Black and other racially minoritised people living with severe mental health conditions during Covid-19.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    25Apr

    Ethnic Inequalities in Healthcare for people with multiple long-term conditions

    Panelists will be discussing recent research and policy implications around ethnic inequalities in healthcare and care quality among people with multiple...

    Please note: this event has passed.

    Features

    Bringing data together to understand employment, disability and health among people with severe mental illness

    People from racialised minority groups diagnosed with severe mental illnesses may face greater social inequities, leading to worse outcomes following...

    Bringing data together

    The story of the SEP-MD study: Why link data?

    In this blog, the SEP-MD study team highlight the importance of their innovative project linking mental health hospital records with Census data.

    shannon-potter-bHlZX1D4I8g-unsplash

      Research

      Mental Health
      Social and Economic Predictors of the Severe Mental Disorders: The SEP-MD Data Linkage Study

      Linking health records and census data to advance understanding of mortality, in-patient admissions and worklessness among people with severe mental illness.

      Project status: Ongoing

      FEATURE CUSP Window
      Centre for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) London

      Supporting interdisciplinary research and innovation in and for London

      COVID-19 Ethnic Inequalities in Mental health and Multimorbidities: COVE-IMM study

      Informed by perspectives of people with lived experience, this study has explored how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated ethnic health inequalities

      Project status: Completed

      News

      A Life Less Safe: telling the real stories of health inequities through research and film

      Two new studies and an accompanying short film have described the experiences of racially minoritised groups with physical and mental health conditions...

      photo of panel at screening of a Life less Safe

      People with severe mental illness more than four times as likely to die from pneumonia compared to the general population

      New research suggests that people with severe mental illness face an increased risk of death due to infectious disease.

      Most European countries ignore patients with severe mental illness in COVID vaccine strategy despite significant risks

      New £7M research investment to investigate population-based improvement of mental health

      £7 million funding from UK Research and Innovation, has been awarded to lead partner King’s College London to establish a research theme in Population Mental...

      Crowd in London

      Applications open for three new studentships at the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health

      The ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health invite prospective students to apply for new studentships aligned with its key research areas, with a focus on...

      people walking

      Researchers call for better integration of mental health and alcohol services among minority ethnic groups

      New research shows the association between alcohol use and mental health differs across minority ethnic groups, and provides insight into people’s reasons for...

      Growing numbers of alcohol related hospital admissions linked to local spending cuts

      People with severe mental illness at 50 per cent higher risk of death following COVID-19 infection

      New research from King’s College London has found that people in the UK with severe mental illness were at increased risk of death from all causes following...

      covid sad

      Exposure to air pollution is associated with increased use of psychiatric services in people with dementia

      New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at king's College London has found exposure to air pollution is associated...

      Air-pollution

      Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study Receives £2.3m Funding

      The Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study has been backed by £2.3 million funding from the UKRI Medical Research Council to collect new...

      E-Risk-Study-logo

      Generational inequalities in mental health accelerated with the COVID-19 pandemic

      Generational inequalities in mental health widened over the course of the UK’s COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new peer-reviewed study published in the...

      deaton-inequality-hero

      People from ethnic minority backgrounds experience persisting inequality in their treatment for common mental health problems in England

      New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London has assessed the prevalence of common mental health...

      medical-appointment-doctor-healthcare-40568

      Events

      10Oct

      A Life Less Safe: invitation to a special screening at Brixton Ritzy

      A film exploring the experiences of Black and other racially minoritised people living with severe mental health conditions during Covid-19.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      25Apr

      Ethnic Inequalities in Healthcare for people with multiple long-term conditions

      Panelists will be discussing recent research and policy implications around ethnic inequalities in healthcare and care quality among people with multiple...

      Please note: this event has passed.

      Features

      Bringing data together to understand employment, disability and health among people with severe mental illness

      People from racialised minority groups diagnosed with severe mental illnesses may face greater social inequities, leading to worse outcomes following...

      Bringing data together

      The story of the SEP-MD study: Why link data?

      In this blog, the SEP-MD study team highlight the importance of their innovative project linking mental health hospital records with Census data.

      shannon-potter-bHlZX1D4I8g-unsplash