New Mental Health Act data out today: -52,000 detentions last year (similar to the previous year) -Black people 4x more likely than white people to be detained (up from 3.5x) -A 17% increase in Community Treatment Orders -Black people 8.5x more likely that white people to be on CTOs (up from 7x)

publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a... Turns out that social media influencer promotion of food affects children’s food intake Influencer marketing of unhealthy foods increased children’s immediate food intake Who'd have thought

Most people working in this area have known for years that DWP's figures on trends in out-of-work benefit caseloads are complete junk but have struggled to find more accurate figures. Ben has now produced an estimated time series and the discrepancy is huge. Nobody should be using these stats!

📢 Job opportunity! 📢 I am recruiting a 2-year postdoc to join me at @clscohorts.bsky.social to work on a SUPER exciting project on the quantitative study of intersectional inequalities in youth mental health across time and place! See www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... for more info and how to apply!

Digital Innovations for Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention: Innovation Lab Expression of Interest form forms.office.com/pages/respon... @phiuk.bsky.social @lhgp.bsky.social @khe-kings.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @jdasmunshi.bsky.social @thriveldn.bsky.social @healthyurbanplaces.bsky.social

🔍Following our recent work (PMID: 39810682 and 37966825), we observed larger mortality rate differences for most causes between people with and without mental disorders in the lower income groups, whilst an interesting reverse pattern was found for deaths from alcohol misuse and suicide.

📢 My third PhD paper was just published in The Lancet Regional Health-Europe (authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...), in which we examined cause-specific mortality in individuals with and without mental disorders according to socioeconomic position, using nationwide registers from Denmark.

Our very own little starter pack: members and associated organisations across the four research consortia that make up PHI UK. Please let us know if we've left you off.

Are you using administrative registers to investigate the association between income and health? Then you should definitely check the last paper from our group, led by @lindaejlskov.bsky.social and just published at the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health!

Join our science night with fascinating activities and talks! I'll be talking about my research, "Wired for connection: The neuroscience of loneliness and health". Super excited about it!🧠🧪🧑‍🔬

🚨job alert! Fancy working on mental health electronic health records #EHR? Working across the Uni of Cambridge and industry, alongside Akrivia Health? We are looking for an experienced postdoctoral researcher or engineer to help develop common data models for EHR. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50667/ 1/3

In our @ukri.org @phiuk.bsky.social Population Mental Health consortium, we're hoping to change that by recruiting a Community Insights Panel to help us set the direction for community mental health research & practice in the UK. Interested? Find out more here: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/populat... 2/2

Great to see our main baseline paper from ¡Ola! study out, exploring #SDoH correlates of #CMD in young people living in low income parts of 3 cities in South America Cases report more SLEs, social media & sedative use than controls, less physical activity pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40042842/

🚨 Just in case anyone missed this, at the end of last year we published a glossary article for climate change & mental health research. Please share. doi.org/10.1136/jech...

Our Distinguished Lectures on #FuturePublicHeath bring together senior public health experts to provide thought leadership on public health practice & training. Join us for the next session with Professor Sir Frank Atherton, chaired by @profkevinfenton.bsky.social ➡️ www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...

Commentary from University of Minnesota researcher: Chaotic cuts to NIH will threaten America’s leadership in innovation, hurt American families minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/06/c...

Forthcoming FPH Events: 🗓️[10/03] - Health literacy 🗓️[20/03] - Extreme heat and public health masterclass 🗓️[02/04] - #PublicHealthSpaces: community-centred approaches to public health 🗓️[03/04] - Academic careers advice Register via our website ➡️ www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...

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Today's sandpit @official-uom.bsky.social where researchers, orgs & communities are generating innovative ideas for the built environment & population mental health @jdasmunshi.bsky.social @healthierfutures.bsky.social @mui-uom.bsky.social @caglarkoksal.com @phiuk.bsky.social @thriveldn.bsky.social

@official-uom.bsky.social is offering 3-year postdoc fellowships to mark its 200th anniversary. If you already have a strong idea on the links between urban form/housing quality and health, and need a mentor, I’m happy to chat. Particularly interested in innovative methods & novel evidence.

Forthcoming FPH Events: 🗓️[04/03] - Healthy place making: making an impact 🗓️[10/03] - Health literacy & tackling health inequalities 🗓️[20/03] - Extreme heat and public health masterclass 🗓️[02/04] - #PublicHealthSpaces: community-centred approaches Register online ➡️ www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...

The deadline for this amazing opportunity to develop ideas and collaborations between academics and community organisations has been extended to the 18th to Feb. Green and nature-based organisations that improve access to green space & biodiversity are invited to apply! 🌱

Correct link here www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b...

We’ve extended the deadline -Opportunity to apply for small grants (up to £10k) around the built environment and population mental health ⬇️ shortlisted applicants will be invited to an event in Manchester www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b.

CRIS research linking mental health records with census data, led by Professor @jdasmunshi.bsky.social has shown that those with severe mental illness are more likely to have poor health and be unemployed. These outcomes are strongly linked to living alone: www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/posts/2024/d...

Closing today ! Opportunity to apply for small grants (up to £10k) around the built environment and population mental health ⬇️ shortlisted applicants will be invited to an event in Manchester www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b...

Fabulous opportunity to apply for funding around the built environment and population mental health ⬇️ . We will be inviting successful applicants to bid for up to £10k to support innovative ideas. Deadline soon !

📣 See our webinar for details of our upcoming interactive sandpit event exploring how the built environment shapes population mental health & inequalities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYPL... 📅 Weds 5th March 12pm-5:30pm 📍@official-uom.bsky.social Oxford Road @phiuk.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

We're still working on expanding this list, but here is Version 1 of our Social Epidemiology Starter Pack—just in time for the holidays! Please like & repost! And Happy Holidays & Happy New Year! ☃️🫒🥂🎉 #SocialEpiSky #EpiSky😷 #PublicHealth 🛟 go.bsky.app/7x1TEQq

Focusing on treatment alone is not the answer. We need preventative strategies, not just because they cut down on costly interventions but because they deliver better outcomes for individuals. 👀Read our new blog, written with the LGA, @nhsconfed.bsky.social & @rsph.bsky.social ➡️bit.ly/41KyexQ

9) Selecting based on univariable associations Univariate screening to select significant predictors for use in multivariable models is an unnecessary extra step in the analysis and a source of "winners curse" that should generally be avoided www.jclinepi.com/article/0895...

Margaret and Alison talk about the history of the Clubhouse model and Fountain House, a respite centre model for people with severe mental illness, built on the idea that community is therapy. open.spotify.com/episode/3yd7...

We’ve launched NHS Race and Health Observatory’s ‘7 Principles of Anti-Racism’ - providing solutions and support to tackle the challenge of racism, and to drive sustainable change in healthcare. Watch the explainer video here: youtu.be/cOK0voAJbxs

New paper alert 📢 From our data linkage of person-level census to mental health records… we found extraordinarily high levels of self-reported disability , poor health and long term worklessness in people with psychoses… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38286672/

Hello bsky. Good to be here. I'm hiring! Can't think of a better inaugural post than to share details of new 2-year research fellow post we're advertising for an outstanding epidemiogist to join my team to work on improving population mental health. tinyurl.com/28mlykr9 #CausalSky #EpiSky

Follow our amazing & eclectic crew of population scientists 🤩 #demography #epidemiology #sociology #datascience #publichealth

We will try a new format for our group’s journal club tomorrow. Looking forward to the debate between @tformanek.bsky.social and @dannicc.bsky.social about hypothesis-based vs data-driven approaches on social determinants of health (such a great idea 🤓🙌). Any thoughts about it??

New research reveals crucial insights on childhood bullying - from risk factors to solutions. Learn how social dynamics shape this group behavior and discover evidence-based strategies to protect our kids. Essential viewing for parents, educators & child advocates acamhlearn.org/Learning/Why...

This will be a fantastic resource for longitudinal research. Very much looking forward to the launch event. Many congratulations to @larseneault.bsky.social and team

📢 New publication from our group: a comprehensive study on mental health disorder trends in Denmark according to age, calendar period, and birth cohort We are excited to announce the publication of our latest research in JAMA Psychiatry: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... More details below.

My first post on Bluesky :) We’re hiring! We’re looking for a postdoc research associate, to come work with us in our national population mental health consortium. If you’re into psych epi, public health & tackling mental health inequities take a look ⏬ www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/mini...

Other epi disciplines already have their lovely starter packs, so for establishing parity of esteem, here comes the psychiatric epidemiology starter pack 👇 go.bsky.app/ADVqVyp Please nominate other people to grow our ranks ☺️

Public mental health starter pack: please take a look, share, recommend others or ask to join! go.bsky.app/7edo6At

The One King’s Impact Fund is open again for applications! Supporting new initiatives & scaling existing projects across research, education & service that align with King's Impact Priorities. Closing date: Mon 3 March 2025. Find out more here ➡ www.kcl.ac.uk/impact/fund

Our final #CDOH session is on November 19, 2024 featuring @ph-anna.bsky.social. You can register here for that one: www.eventbrite.ca/e/hpi-speake...

New publication: Community-based interventions on the social determinants of mental health in the UK: an umbrella review. Nia Williams, James B. Kirkbride. Journal of Public Mental Health doi.org/10.1108/JPMH... #phiukpmh

📣 Vacancy! Exciting opportunity for a Postdoc in Population Mental Health (Quantitative Methods). Exploring upstream social determinants on mental health & impact of employment, welfare policies & reforms on mental health. Interviews early Dec @kingsioppn.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/099345-...