Population Mental Health

Monika Kosinska from WHO presenting on Commercial Determinants of Health - Essential to the prevention agenda.

Members of LHGP stand in front of a Prevention Conference 2026 poster.

PhD student Ciaran Hay presents on the impact of spatially contingent economic inequality on the local food environment in England and Wales

What a week for LHGP at #PreventionResearch2026 with many LHGP researchers presenting new evidence on the commercial determinants of health, from local government to food environments to alcohol policy. LHGP was described as "trailblazing" by WHO's @monikakosinska.bsky.social.

Report cover - Policy Modelling for Health logo top left Text reads Policy Impact Assessment: Autumn Budget Statement 2025 UK-Wide Distributional Analysis 2026-2030

How will the Autumn Budget 2025 affect poverty, inequality, and household incomes across the UK?
Using UKMOD #microsimulation - modelling to simulate behaviour and interactions - our new report assesses winners, losers and fiscal impacts from 2026–2030. www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_1246769_smxx.pdf

Purpose: A Wellbeing Economies Film - Glasgow Screening with Panel Q&A Join us for a screening of Purpose: A Wellbeing Economies Film, to energise and spark discussion around our future economic system.

Tickets still available for Wellbeing Economies Film "Purpose" + panel discussion @weallscotland.bsky.social @glasgowcc.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk @uofgshw.bsky.social Join us for lively debate on how we can redesign the economy for people and planet www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/purpose-a-...

If you're up for creating more connections between research, policy and practice for health equity, please do link up with PHI UK and our consortia... 👉 www.phiuk.org/contact/foll...

Prof Nick Wareham and Prof Adam Briggs bring Prevention Research 2026 to a close, addressing how we can better join up the funding landscape to create a sustainable and agile research infrastructure for public health research. #preventionresearch26

Read more about the launch and Bradford’s Regeneration and Growth Plan
www.phiuk.org/news/place-h... 7/7

YouTube video by Population Health Improvement UK Routes to Opportunity: Getting Transport Infrastructure To Help Bradford's Youth Flourish

PHI UK Healthy Urban Places have launched a five-part evidence series to coincide with the Bradford Built Different plan, highlighting how cities can maximise the health co-benefits of regeneration and growth strategies.

Watch an introductory video...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVqE...

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New research; Developing guidance on assessing and managing conflicts of interest for a complex public health research consortium; Journal of research Management and Administration; PHI UK / Local Health and Global Profits

Cross-sector collaboration is increasing but how do you protect #research integrity? A new case study led by @ambervandenakker.bsky.social offers step-by-step guidance on designing and implementing conflicts of interest #COI policies for complex research consortiums.

Good morning. It's the first day of Prevention Research 2026 - Connecting research, policy and practice for health equity
#preventionresearch26
preventionresearch26.co.uk
We're looking forward to seeing everyone - if you're here, come and see us at the PHI UK stand just past the reception desk...

🔬 Our researchers are out in force at #PreventionResearch26 this week! Come and say hello — we'd love to see you there. Full schedule of presentations below 👇
tinyurl.com/2k3euhjr
#PopulationMentalHealth #MentalHealth #PreventionResearch26 #PopulationHealthImprovementUK #Research

Flyer for a research project hosting in-person workshops on benefit receipt, mental health and work in ethnic minority communities. Taking place Wednesday 8 April, 3 hours, with food and drink provided and a £75 thank you payment. Includes a QR code and link to register interest.

📢We're hosting workshops on benefits, work & mental health in ethnic minority communities📆8 April ⏲️3 hours 👥 8–10 people💷£75 thank you payment. Lived or professional experience welcome. Register here forms.office.com/e/upKHuxBJ9A #MentalHealth #PublicHealth #Research #HealthEquity #CommunityResearch

Join Population Mental Health Consortium researchers presenting at Prevention Research 2026 🗓️ 4-5 March 📍Vox, Birmingham 🪧 Connecting Research, Policy & Practice for Health Equity 📄 Draft programme available now preventionresearch26.co.uk #MentalHealth #PublicHealth #PreventionResearch #HealthEquity

SARG researchers to showcase local health modelling at the Prevention Research Conference 2026 - Sheffield Addictions Research Group Researchers from the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG) will present work from the Local Health and Global Profits programme at the Prevention Research Conference 2026 in Birmingham on 4-5 Mar...

Are you attending the Prevention Research Conference next week? Look out for SARG researchers @charlierosehead.bsky.social and Esther Chanakira who will be presenting advanced modelling work from the @lhgp.bsky.social @phiuk.bsky.social programme. Read more on the SARG website 👇 #PublicHealth

🗓️ Next week at Prevention Research 2026!
🐟 Healthy and Equitable Futures Fishbowl with @pmeierprof.bsky.social: an interactive listening, discussion and critical thinking session asking what a healthier and more equitable future could look like.
🔗 Register by 1st March: preventionresearch26.co.uk

Join us on 23 March (15:30–17:00) for our upcoming webinar: The Business of Health Misinformation. We will explore how social media platforms are shaping health outcomes and spreading misinformation, and what this means for conflicts of interest between the social media industry and #PublicHealth.

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

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

COVID-19, economic downturn, and long-term trajectories of population mental health: Evidence from two nationally representative British birth cohorts at the intersection of gender and socioeconomic p... We examined long-term trajectories of mental (ill-)health in two British generations (‘Baby Boomers’ and ‘Generation X’) across the life-course, inclu…

If you are interested in the scientific publication, you can find it here, open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We’re hiring! 📣 @uofgshw.bsky.social is recruiting a FT Senior Programme Manager to support our £7.5m consortium - part of UKRI-funded @phiuk.bsky.social network shaping how policy affects health and equity.
📍 Glasgow | 💷 £50,253–£58,225
⏰ Deadline 17 Feb 2026 www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/senior-p...

📬 Catch up on what we've achieved in 2025! Our latest newsletter features funding awards, new partnerships, and insights shaping population mental health. Want these updates in your inbox? Sign up here t.co/R5pNmcB4PR #populationmentalhealth #mentalhealth #collaboration #research #innovation

Inside Policy Modelling for Health: People, Partnerships, and Purpose

📢 We're back in 2026 with a fast-paced intro to Policy Modelling for Health — who we are, what we do, and why it matters.
🗓 Tuesday 20 January 2026, 12–12:40pm
🎙 Inside Policy Modelling for Health with Julian Cox, our Deputy Director & Assistant Director – Research, GMCA.
Register at: bit.ly/445i5DK

@swanseauni.bsky.social @lhgp.bsky.social @healthyurbanplaces.bsky.social @healthmod.bsky.social

@sarahsteeg.bsky.social @jdasmunshi.bsky.social @phiuk.bsky.social @thriveldn.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk

Bringing innovation to life: reflections on Population Mental Health's innovation lab for digital suicide and self-harm prevention PMH Innovation lab brings together researchers, charities, and lived experience voices to develop digital suicide and self-harm prevention solutions.

💡"An interesting day immersed in creative thinking & ideas generation." Our innovation lab brought together people from diverse backgrounds-researchers, charities & those with lived experience—to co-create digital solutions for suicide & self-harm prevention. Read more👇 www.phiuk.org/news/blogs/b...

A wide, high-angle photograph by Will Lepper showing The Cultural Climate Assembly, an event for cultural practitioners to discuss the climate crisis. The photo shows a large hall where attendees are sitting in groups around circular tables. In the centre, a large white mat on the floor is printed with a black graphic of a large tree's root system. A woman, likely a co-facilitator, stands on the graphic, addressing the attendees. In the background, another facilitator stands near a stage set up with display boards.

🥳 We are pleased to be joining an amazing group of partners to work together and deliver upon a £1.5 million The National Lottery Community Fund award for a ground-breaking project linking climate action and mental wellbeing in London…

#NationalLottery

Senior Centre Manager | King's College London

We're hiring a Senior Centre Manager!

The role will involve working as part of the Centre’s senior leadership team, overseeing a wide range of business and research operations to ensure effective management of all day-to-day operations.

Find out more and apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130606-...

One week to apply!

Join us at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social and the #BridgingDivides team (www.bridging-divides.org) to lead research on the causes of the #gender gap in #YouthMentalHealth

Closes 1 December!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM357/r...

@kingscsmh.bsky.social

E-Risk Study Research Assistant | King's College London

🚨 We’re hiring!

Join the team behind the E-Risk Longitudinal Twin Study 🧬

📌 4 Research Assistant posts
🎥 Conduct online interviews with twins turning 30
🔗 Apply now: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/131185-...
⏳ Deadline: Dec 10

@kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscsmh.bsky.social

Improving Population Mental Health Through Collaboration: New partnership between DATAMIND and PHI UK Population Mental Health Consortium - Datamind DATAMIND, the UK’s Mental Health Data Hub funded by the Medical Research Council, is working to improve access to mental health data and strengthen research across the UK. Its mission is to make menta...

🤝We’re pleased to announce a new partnership with
DATAMIND joining forces to improve population mental health & address inequalities across the UK. Read more here👉 datamind.org.uk/improving-po... @phiuk.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @thriveldn.bsky.social @popdatascisu.bsky.social @ukri.org

@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