Prof of Population Health & Statistics at UCL @sriucl.bsky.social | Director of 1958NCDS & 1970BCS @clscohorts.bsky.social
Generational health drift | Lifecourse origins of adult health and mortality | Population mental health
George Ploubidis
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New research, drawing on data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, finds people who reported long-term physical and mental health difficulties at age 42 were less likely to be employed at age 51. Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/3Ruk2WY @georgeploubidis.bsky.social
Landmark systematic review of the British birth cohorts, providing further evidence of Generational Health Drift.
Led by the fantastic Laura Gimeno with superstar team: @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social @martindanka.bsky.social @yiling1015.bsky.social Alice Goisis & @drjenndowd.bsky.social
Mental health difficulties among young adults in England have doubled in past decade, finds a new
@ucl.ac.uk study by CLS researchers
@dominicpkelly.bsky.social & @emlafitzsimons.bsky.social
Read more on the CLS website: bit.ly/4v4QZrx
Our mascot Cohort MemBear was delighted to make a trip to the beautiful city of Belfast for our latest consultation on the Age 27 Sweep of the Millennium Cohort Study.
Join us (and MemBear) for our final consultation event or submit your ideas online: bit.ly/4nxJre7
It's not the diet, Telegraph. Take another guess.
Excited to deliver the keynote at the UCL “200 Years of Health and Wellbeing” symposium 🎉
I’ll present evidence on Generational Health Drift, its impact on economic activity, and argue that the recent decline in Healthy Life Expectancy reflects both mental and physical health. @sriucl.bsky.social
I worked for a year at Bilgi MBA while studying at Boğaziçi uni. Both universities are devastated and Bilgi now closed by presidential decree. All the same time the country says they want to attract back talented Turkish students and academics.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...
🎂💐 Happy 80th birthday to Professor Heather Joshi, former director of @clscohorts.bsky.social, founding director of the Millennium Cohort Study, and a key figure in the development of Generation New Era. Thank you for your enormous contribution to longitudinal and women’s studies!
More than a fifth (22%) of generation Z in England report having a longstanding mental health condition in their early 20s, double the rate of millennials (10%) at a similar age ten years earlier.
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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies
George Ploubidis
Per Engzell
Millennials and gen Z may spend more years in poor health than their earlier born counterparts, according to a new review of 51 studies comparing UK birth cohorts.
Read more on the CLS website - bit.ly/4wKqclU
Two weeks to go: @georgeploubidis.bsky.social is delivering the keynote at @ucl.ac.uk's Past, Present and Future symposium on Thursday, 14 May. Living Longer but Not Healthier: The Generational Health Drift uses data from CLS’ cohorts. Register: bit.ly/42wK4ef
UCL Social Research Institute
Ozan Aksoy
Council of Higher Education promised to take measures to ensure Bilgi University students 'suffer no harm'.
Millennials and gen Z are more likely to live with obesity and report mental health difficulties earlier in their lives than the baby boomers and generation X.
