Professor of Psychiatric & Social Epidemiology, UCL Division of Psychiatry. Social determinants, ethnic inequalities, severe mental illness
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https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/43555-james-kirkbride
Prof James B Kirkbride
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Being racially or ethnically discriminated against may increase the risk of later developing psychotic symptoms, finds a major review of international evidence led by @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social researchers.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...
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Colleagues from @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social found consistent evidence from numerous studies that racial and ethnic discrimination appears to contribute to the development of psychosis.
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Great to give the closing state-of-the-art session at the European Psychiatric Association annual conference in Madrid yesterday on social determinants of mental health.
Thanks to President, Prof Andrea Fiorillo, for invite to talk on this important issue.
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Wonderful collaboration led by leading academics in mental health research in Peru, Colombia & Argentina, directed by Stefan Priebe & co at QMUL, funded via MRC.
Longitudinal results of two year follow-up to follow.
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/
Thinking of advancing your knowledge & skills in mental health research? Come to our graduate open evening on 19 March, and find out more about our outstanding MSc courses in mental health research in @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social at @ucl.ac.uk.
www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/e...
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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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