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NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Maudsley @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New research, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, has investigated the risk of death of people with severe mental illness (SMI) during the COVID-19 pandemic and the possible impact of prioritising this group for vaccination. www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/news/vaccina...

Vaccination reduced but did not eliminate mortality inequalities for people with severe mental illness

“Prioritising people with severe mental illness for vaccination was an important and effective policy, but more needs to be done to address the wider factors that contribute to poorer health and premature mortality
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Darío Moreno-Agostino @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Using repeated measures of mental ill-health spanning 40+ years, we found post-lockdown return to pre-pandemic levels in both cohorts & life-long inequalities by factors out of the individuals' control: birth year, sex assigned at birth, childhood socioeconomic position, and their intersections

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

We’re excited to see @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social’s article on the @uk.theconversation.com site. You can also find out more about the full research project on the CLS website: bit.ly/4aa5MYV

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Darío Moreno-Agostino @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Check our article in @uk.theconversation.com on our recent study on the long-term trajectories of mental ill-health in the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts and long-term inequalities in these @clscohorts.bsky.social @georgeploubidis.bsky.social @jdasmunshi.bsky.social @kingscsmh.bsky.social

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Darío Moreno-Agostino @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🚨Job alert!🚨 We are looking for a 🧮 quant postdoc researcher to join the AMAZING Jay Das-Munshi @jdasmunshi.bsky.social George Ploubidis @georgeploubidis.bsky.social & myself at @kingscsmh.bsky.social in collab with @clscohorts.bsky.social All info: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru... Closes 18 Nov!

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Darío Moreno-Agostino @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

📢8 days to apply to this 2-year postdoc!📢 Join @jdasmunshi.bsky.social + @georgeploubidis.bsky.social + me to do research using data from @clscohorts.bsky.social and beyond, as well as linkages to health and administrative data, to examine population mental health inequalities over the life course!

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Tom Pollard @pollardtom.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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)

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

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

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Social Media Influencer Marketing and Children’s Food Intake: A Randomized Trial

In this study, we examine the impact of influencer marketing of foods (healthy and unhealthy), via popular YouTube vloggers on social media, on children’s food intake.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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!

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Darío Moreno-Agostino @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

📢 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!

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Population Mental Health @popmhuk.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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

https://kings.bsky.social‬

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Danni Chen @dannicc.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

🔍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.

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Danni Chen @dannicc.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

📢 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.

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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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.

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Oleguer Plana-Ripoll @planaripoll.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

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!

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Estherina Trachtenberg @estherina.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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!🧠🧪🧑‍🔬

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Emanuele Osimo @em-os.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

🚨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

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Prof James B Kirkbride @kirkbride.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

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

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Population Mental Health looking for people to join Community Insights Panel

Recruitment is now open for the Population Mental Health Community Insights Panel.

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Prof James B Kirkbride @kirkbride.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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/

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Mental Distress Among Youths in Low-Income Urban Areas in South America - PubMed

In this case-control study, female gender, stressful life events, substance use, arts activities, and social media engagement were associated with greater odds of depression and anxiety, while sport a...

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Faculty of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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...

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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 06/03/2025

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...

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Chaotic cuts to NIH will threaten America's leadership in innovation, hurt American families • Minnesota Reformer

NIH research delivers an estimated $2.50 of economic activity for every $1 spent.

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Faculty of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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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Population Mental Health @popmhuk.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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

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Caglar Koksal @caglarkoksal.com · 31/01/2025

@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.

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Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities:Oxford Road

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Faculty of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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...

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Shuo Zhang @shuo-zhang.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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! 🌱

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Jay Das-Munshi @jdasmunshi.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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.

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NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Maudsley @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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...

Professor Jay Das-Munshi, Professor of Social & Psychiatric Epidemiology at King’s IoPPN said:
“Our study indicates that people with severe
mental health conditions experience high levels of disability, report poorer health and high levels of unemployment, compared to those without these conditions. We must do more to support people with these conditions to ultimately live better lives.”

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Jay Das-Munshi @jdasmunshi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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...

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The built environment and population mental health: Sandpit event

Join us for an interactive sandpit event exploring how the built environment shapes population mental health and inequalities.

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Jay Das-Munshi @jdasmunshi.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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 !

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Population Mental Health @popmhuk.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

📣 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

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The built environment and population mental health: sandpit event Q&A

YouTube video by Thrive LDN

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International Social Epidemiology Society @ises-epi.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

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

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Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @adphuk.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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

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Maarten van Smeden @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

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...

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Dr Habib Naqvi MBE @drhnaqvi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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

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R&HO Seven Anti-Racism Principles

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Prof James B Kirkbride @kirkbride.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

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

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

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

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Oleguer Plana-Ripoll @planaripoll.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

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??

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Martin Pratt @martinpratt.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

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...

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Why do children end up being bullied or bullying others - and what we can all do about it?

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