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Population Mental Health

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

  • 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 with stakeholders across public health, local government and voluntary organisations. Integral to our approach is also to work closely with people with lived experience of mental distress and adversities which impact mental health.

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.

Key people

Director: Professor Jayati Das-Munshi, King’s College London

A portait of Prof Jayati Das-Munshi.

Jayati Das-Munshi is Professor of Social & Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London and Honorary Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist. 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 and a specific interest in ethnic minority mental health inequalities. She leads and collaborates on a number of large grants and cohorts, and is an advisor to a range of national and international policy organisations.

Co-Director: Dan Barrett, Thrive LDN

A portrait of Dan Barrett.

Deputy Director: Professor Matthew Hotopf, King’s College London

A portrait of Professor Matthew Hotopf.

Matthew Hotopf CBE is Executive Dean at the Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London. He is a Professor of General Hospital Psychiatry, a consultant liaison psychiatrist, and former Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) from 2014-2023. He is a NIHR Senior Investigator and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and inaugural chair of the NIHR’s Translational Research Collaboration in Mental Health. He has broad research interests including using epidemiological and novel mobile health methods to interrogate the relationship between mental and physical health.

Meet the team

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