Mental Health Hub
Aim:
To build applied health research capability and capacity to enable research-led mental health services across the lifespan in pressing areas of mental health linked to substantial health inequalities in our region.
Objectives:
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Strengthening Wessex’s capacity and capability to conduct high quality mental health research in populations with high mental health burden
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Working collaboratively with a range of organisations and the public to address current mismatch between mental health research need and evidence-based health, care, and public service response
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Enhancing capacity and capability of mental health services to incorporate findings of research into care pathways, so improving the effectiveness, efficiency, safety and quality of mental health care and commissioning of mental health services.
Our research projects
Mental Health Hub lead
Professor Sam Chamberlain
Mental Health Hub lead
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Ageing and Dementia - promotion of healthy ageing by implementing and evaluating strategies to address alcohol use disorder, loneliness, and isolation.
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Workstream co-leads: Professor Julia Sinclair and Professor Jackie Bridges
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Healthy Communities - developing, implementing and evaluating strategies to identify young people at risk of mental health conditions (including addictions like alcohol & gambling), promote early intervention and successful care transitions and bolster resilience.
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Workstream co-leads: Professor Samuele Cortese and Professor Anne-Sophie Darlington
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Long-Term Conditions - enhancing evidence-based support for those with long term mental health disorders, like treatment-resistant anxiety and depression, and approaches to mobilising community systems of support and fostering resilience, including social prescribing.
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Workstream co-leads: Professor MC Portillo and Professor David Baldwin
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Workforce and Health Systems - develop and test evidence-based interventions matched to staff need and the organisational and professional context, to promote mental health, wellbeing and resilience in workforce providing care and treatment to people with mental health problems.
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Workstream co-leads: Professor Jane Ball and Dr Gemma Simons
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