Jay Das-Munshi

@lhgp.bsky.social @healthyurbanplaces.bsky.social @healthmod.bsky.social @kingscsmh.bsky.social @jdasmunshi.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk
@ulsteruni-edi.bsky.social @swanseauni.bsky.social
@ucl.ac.uk

🚨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!

📢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!

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!

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).

📢 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
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🔍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/
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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.

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...

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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...

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/

@tformanek.bsky.social many congratulations! Look forward to hearing more !

Coming to terms with climate change: a glossary for climate change impacts on mental health and well-being Climate change is a major threat to global health. Its effects on physical health are increasingly recognised, but mental health impacts have received less attention. The mental health effects of clim...

🚨 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...

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.

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

Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities:Oxford Road

@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!

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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.

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.”

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...