Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology @UCLPsychiatry | @wellcometrust Career Development Fellow | eating disorders, epidemiology, causal inference. (she/her)
Joined March 2012
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25 Jun 2025
Our new study led by Dr Annie Jeffery finds high rates of mortality and admissions for physical health problems across all ED diagnoses in English EHRs- with large disparities in mortality and admissions for men cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Look forward to seeing you all there!
24 Jun 2025
Super thrilled to be travelling to Strasbourg soon to be attending the @ESCAPonline Congress!
@Tamsin_J_Ford , @drbould, @Francesca_Solmi , Dr Ben Geers and me will be presenting a symposium on Eating Disorders, 5 pm, on the 29th of June :)
Do come say hi if you are around :)
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28 May 2025
New from us:
Armed conflict exposure types are not equally associated with access to psychosocial support: A study of over 8 million victims of the Colombian armed conflict journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Work from a joint Colombian / UK team consisting of...
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AND STILL… AUSTRALIAN OPEN CHAMPION 🇦🇺🏆
🇮🇹 JANNIK SINNER 🇮🇹
@janniksin #AO2025
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26 Jan 2025
Jannik Sinner… EXCUSE ME?????
You are insane, sir. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
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11 Jan 2025
Rethorical question: Why are school and family diaries for mum's office?!
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21 Dec 2024
Great to see @atsommerlad research showcased at Fondazione Prada this morning as part of the "Preserving the brain" exhibition! @UCLPsychiatry
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31 Oct 2024
New 3-year research fellow role at @UCLPsychiatry! Come work with @GemmaLewis13 and me on eating disorders and depression research. Any questions, please just get in touch with us 😊. More details on team, project, and role below 👇
ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search…
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4 Oct 2024
Excited to be giving the next instalment of the UCL Lunch hour lecture on 10th Oct (online)
The lunch hour lectures are a long running UCL tradition (82nd year!!) and I used to love attending them when I was a PhD student. Never thought I'd be asked to give one but here we go!!!
3 Oct 2024
Join us on 10th October for a fascinating Lunch Hour Lecture on Mental Health - ‘Unequal mental health: Society, power and the depressogenic environment’. Delivered by @pravpatalay
ucl.ac.uk/events/events/2024…
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1 Oct 2024
Our new landmark @MarmotIHE review concludes racism damages health & wellbeing & drives avoidable inequalities between ethnic groups across London @SadiqKhan @DrHNaqvi @LDN_gov @LondonAssembly @UCL 1/6 instituteofhealthequity.org/…
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3 Aug 2024
"Olympics games where sometimes we say goodbye to legends. It is the final time on the court for one of the best to ever do it. So please give it up for the incredible Japan captain, Sarina Koga.”
Sarina Koga you will be missed! Good luck on your next chapter!
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2 Aug 2024
We greatly lack research into the eating disorder ARFID
Now is the time for change
I am therefore excited to announce that I will be leading an 8 year @wellcometrust fellowship that will use big data & work with individuals with lived experience to bring new insights into ARFID
#CNGG Research Fellow, Dr Samuel Chawner (@ChawnerSamuel), has recently received over £2 million in funding as part of a Wellcome Career Development Award focusing on Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) 🔍
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17 Jul 2024
Patients with eating disorders who die by suicide are younger & female & show more clinical complexity - self-harm, domestic violence, etc.
Complexity can lead to exclusion but services need to built around it. New @NCISH_UK study.
thelancet.com/journals/lanps…
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15 Jul 2024
I'm looking for some advice: is there a short, robust, self-reported measure of ADHD for adolescents? Thank you! #mentalhealth
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15 Jul 2024
Congratulations, Maddie! 🎊🎉🥳🥂 It's been such a pleasure to help supervise your PhD! You did wonderfully 😊
10 Jul 2024
Happy to say that I passed my viva today with minor corrections 🥳
Huge thanks for such an interesting discussion to my examiners, Profs @laurahowe_epi and @ClareHLlewellyn
Super grateful for such supportive supervisors @YvonneJKelly @Anne_McMunn @Francesca_Solmi
#PhDone
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1 Jul 2024
Our new @CO90s study 👇in SPPE:
📍Increased risk of psychotic like experiences in sexual minority compared with heterosexual adolescents, from ages 12-24
📍Findings support universal interventions to prevent this mental health inequality
link.springer.com/article/10…
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27 Jun 2024
‘Develop a school curriculum that centres and celebrates diversity and inclusion’
Informed by our @wellcometrust funded research on how to reduce mental health inequalities for LGBTQ young people in schools, with @McPinYPNetwork:
nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
27 Jun 2024
V excited to launch our '10 asks of government’ ahead of the General Election!🎉
Young people w lived experience of mental health issues, with academic partners, have collated a summary of research-informed asks of the next government 🗣️
Read them here 👉bit.ly/3zdjtYf
ALT Ten asks of the next government. How can the next government improve young people's mental health?
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10 Jun 2024
The Wellcome Accelerator Awards will support researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage in the UK to stay in research and advance their careers.
💰 £200,000 per researcher
🗓️ Up to two years
✅ Apply by 18 June
Find out more ⤵️
wellcome.org/grant-funding/s…
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