One in six adults in England have a mental health condition, and mental distress and ill health are associated with significant disability, sickness absence, unemployment and suicide attempts.
Population Mental Health will create new opportunities for population-based improvements in mental health across the country, focusing on children and young people, suicide and self-harm prevention and multiple long-term conditions.
This research consortium includes researchers and leadership at:
King’s College London
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS and Applied Research Collaboration West Midlands
Black Thrive Global
Middlesex University
Swansea University
The University of Manchester
Traumascapes
Thrive LDN
Ulster University
University College London
Mental Health Foundation
Through a partnership between KCL and Thrive LDN, with other organisations, the consortium will work closely with people with lived experience of mental distress and/ or adversities which impact mental health, stakeholders across public health, local government and voluntary organisations.
This will allow for the identification and evaluation of population-level interventions which hold the greatest promise for the improvement of mental health and advancing equality. The aim is to build equity through the development of practice-based evidence and concerted knowledge exchange.