#MQDataScience meetings provide a forum for the mental health data science community to share findings and best practice, and highlight the best work in the field.
On 22nd September, MQ will host its online Mental Health Data Science meeting. As usual, the meeting will be free to attend, meaning that anyone can access the ground-breaking research discussed throughout the day.
This meeting’s theme relates to three of society’s pressing issues - inequality, diversity, and representativeness.
The first session will focus on underserved and underrepresented populations, chaired by Ann John (Swansea University). Contributors will include Aideen Maguire (Queen’s University Belfast) presenting mortality risk amongst care leavers, Sarah Rees (Swansea University) discussing the mental health needs of children and young people living on Gypsy and Traveller sites in Wales, and Lorenzo Bandieri (NHS) with a talk on maximising representativeness in a longitudinal adolescent cohort study.
Patient and public engagement and involvement (PPIE) will be the focus of session two. This session, chaired by Rudolph Cardinal (University of Cambridge), will feature talks from Iona Beange (University of Edinburgh) on a user-led citizen science project ‘Depression Detectives’, Pauline Whelan (University of Manchester) discussing the development of a PPIE app, and Kerry Gutridge (University of Manchester) outlining the creation of a core mental health dataset for use in physical health studies.
Session three, chaired by Dermot O’Reilly (Queen’s University Belfast), will focus on suicidality. The first talk will be held by Dermot on suicide rates in Northern Ireland, followed by Emma Ross (Queen’s University Belfast) who will discuss suicides following self-harm in young people.
The final session – mind, body, brain – will be chaired by Robert Stewart (King’s College London). Contributors will include Alex Kwong (University of Edinburgh) on mental health inequalities during COVID-19, Gayan Perera (King’s College London) discussing associations between loneliness and acute hospitalisation outcomes among patients receiving mental healthcare, and Christoph Mueller (King’s College London) highlighting adverse outcomes of sedation-associated dementia medications.
Everyone is welcome to attend – not only scientists but anyone with an interest in hearing about the very latest mental health research.
You can see the timetable for the event and sign up for your free place here.
