
Mental Health Researcher, Prof. at UCL, NHS Clinician, Medic, Evidence Seeker. #mentalhealth #physicalhealth
Camden Town, London
Joined October 2015
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Five +ve points in @UCLprimrose #CVD #SMI trial
76 practices, 327 ppl took part
Cholesterol went down in both groups
Sign. fewer psych admissions w Primrose
Gr8 attendance w Primrose
>confident nurses
But not much focus on statins, which do work if needed xitter.cf/TheLancetPsych/status/…
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@kandola8 opens @NLMHP_nhs Research Conference 2024 Ambition to reduce mental health inequalities locally and nationally through evidence. @UCLPsychiatry @likahassiotis @osborn_ucl @Gill_Livingston @soniajohnson
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🔍 Important insights from DATAMIND's latest report by @NaomiLaunders on Severe #MentalIllness and #Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in the UK! 🧠📊 Discover how we're advancing coordinated #mentalhealthresearch through comprehensive EHR #dataanalysis.
➡️ datamind.org.uk/data/harmoni…
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What a great #RCPsychIC week @rcpsych! An opportunity to present my work on temperature and mood disorder symptoms. Important that we better understand the links 🔗 between ↪️climate change 🌎 and ↪️mental health. @J_F_Hayes @osborn_ucl @NaomiLaunders @KandolaAaron
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📢NEW RESEARCH ALERT
MQ is really proud to announce Dr Alexandra Burton from @UCL_SBB has been awarded an MQ Fellowship.
Alex will be studying #SocialPrescribing and the benefits for people with severe mental illnesses.
Find out more in this interview 👉
mqmentalhealth.org/studying-…
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Last chance to apply for this scheme & spend 4 years @UCLMentalHealth studying the mental health topic(s) of your choice from every imaginable angle, with input from lived experience advisors & an extensive range of supervisors, benefiting clinical care & public health.
We are now recruiting for the fifth (and sadly, final) cohort of the UCL-Wellcome 4-year PhD in Mental Health Science, closing date 10th January. For more info, including videos of our online "Roadshows", see our "How to apply" page ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/stud…
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Dermot was a lovely man, it’s a terrible loss. We will all miss him.
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Principal Clinical Research Fellow @UCL_Global an exciting career development opportunity for a clinical scientist with an amazing team at UCL. I will personally provide the successful candidate with my time, mentorship and support. @NIHRglobal
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Great to see this report out, which I co-wrote with @OHID. During the COVID pandemic there were an extra 244 premature deaths/100,000 people in people in contact with secondary care mental health services, compared to 47/100,000 in those not in contact: gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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Really honoured to win this award for my PhD thesis investigating the physical health of people with SMI using electronic medical records, funded by @OHID. Big thank to my brilliant supervisors (@osborn_ucl and @J_F_Hayes) and thesis committee (Gabi Price and @MarstonLouise)
Last but not least, congratulations to Naomi Launders of @UCLPsychiatry, awarded the Michael King Prize for best mental health thesis in 2022/23. The focus of the winning thesis is physical health and related secondary care use in people with severe mental illness.
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Great to see our @sppejournal article picked up in the mental health section of @bmj_latest Seven Days in Medicine 7-13 June 2023 - Gay and bisexual adults show higher risk of self-harm
doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p1339
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At @MQmentalhealth we do our best to make the talks & panel discussions from our events publicly available. Don't miss this one on "Physical health of people w severe mental illnesses" presented by @osborn_ucl chaired by @_PaulineWhelan at our last conference w @DatamindUK
In April @osborn_ucl presented at the #DataScience meeting discussing:
-early onset of multiple long-term conditions
-considering social, pharmacological, health service & behavioural factors
-limitations in existing methods
youtu.be/NaraB-htTk8 youtube.com/watch?v=NaraB-ht…
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In April @osborn_ucl presented at the #DataScience meeting discussing:
-early onset of multiple long-term conditions
-considering social, pharmacological, health service & behavioural factors
-limitations in existing methods
youtu.be/NaraB-htTk8 youtube.com/watch?v=NaraB-ht…
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This study investigates potential mediators in the relationship between gender & mental health during the first wave of Covid-19 in the UK
Read the study from @DotsikasKate, @liamjcrosby, @Anne_McMunn, @osborn_ucl, Kate Waters & Jennifer Dykxhoorn here buff.ly/3EgNlCh
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New #SPHR research led by @jendykxhoorn explored the incidence of depression, anxiety and stress in the last two decades with important differences seen between population groups
➡️sphr.nihr.ac.uk/news-and-eve…
@UCLHealthPublic @UCLMentalHealth @osborn_ucl #MentalHealth
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Delighted to have been awarded funding for a new Mental Health Policy Research Unit, announced today - with a team overlapping with the first MHPRU @MentalHealthPRU, plus some excellent new team members and collaborators. More details soon!
@cityalan @UCLPsychiatry @KingsIoPPN @CHEyork @MHARG_york @osborn_ucl @AnnetteBoaz @Mental_Elf @Andy__Bell__ @ThePatrickNyika @acgrundy @nm_davies @rina_dutta @pollywaite @Julian_Edbrooke
We are pleased to announce that we have awarded over £100 million to 20 new NIHR Policy Research Units to tackle important emerging health and social care issues including #reproductivehealth #addiction and #dementia. Read more: nihr.ac.uk/news/nihr-awards-…
@LucyChappell2 @DHSCgovuk

ALT “We are funding Policy Research Units across a range of key areas of policy ranging from cancer screening to social care. Several new topics will expand the ability of the units to help address the major healthcare challenges that we are facing, including improving reproductive health, tackling addiction as well as dementia and neurodegeneration." Professor Lucy Chappell, Chief Scientific Advisor DHSC and Chief Executive of NIHR
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Delighted to have won the @alzheimerssoc #Dementia Future leader award this year. Thanks to everyone who has supported me in my career so far
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From October 1st I will be Professor of Clinical Trial Statistics (statistics for other study designs still available). I would like to thank Irwin Nazareth for helping me write the application, the internal and external referees for my application and everyone who I work with.
Many congratulations Jen. So well deserved!!
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#Suicidality in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder and its association with receipt of specific secondary mental healthcare treatments #PTSD #CRIS @OpieElena @J_F_Hayes #NomiWerbeloff @osborn_ucl #OpenAccess tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…






















