A Swansea University academic has been appointed an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours list in recognition of her services to suicide prevention and digital innovation. Professor Ann John of Swansea University Medical School is a world-leading expert in suicide prevention, self-harm research, and mental health data science. A former GP, she is Principal Investigator and…
A Swansea University mental health data science expert has been elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in recognition of her outstanding contribution to medical science. Professor Ann John of Swansea University Medical School is among 60 outstanding biomedical and health scientists elected to the Academy’s Fellowship for her major contribution to improving health and…
Datamind News. Published 19th May The DATAMIND & MQ Mental Health Research (MQ) ECR Workshop, Unlocking Research Insights and Harmonising Clinical & Survey Data, recently took place in London. In this blog, Hatem Mona, Data Scientist and Psychiatric Epidemiologist at Swansea University and DATAMIND, reflects on key takeaways from the day, including the challenges and opportunities of…
Datamind blog. Published 19th November. Hi, I’m Pauline Whelan, and I work with DATAMIND, developing digital approaches to enhance mental health research. I am a researcher in digital health based at the University of Manchester and at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. I am really interested in how we can use digital approaches…
DATAMIND news. Published 25th September 2024 DATAMIND continues to evolve, creating new opportunities to expand our impact on mental health research across the UK. Over the years, we have built a distributed multi-site data hub curating Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) datasets that are readily available to researchers, the NHS, policymakers, and industry. Built on innovation,…
Welcome to DATAMIND’s report on Severe Mental Illness and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: Data availability in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and longitudinal studies across the four nations of the United Kingdom DATAMIND is dedicated to enabling coordinated mental health data research in the UK. DATAMIND’s “Linking Physical and Mental Health in Severe Mental Illness (SMI) Roadbuilder 3” has…
DATAMIND blog. Published 30th May Last month, the MQ and DATAMIND Data Science Meeting took place in Swansea. The DATAMIND Hub expands the benefits of data by safely and securely combining data from multiple sources, such as health records, schools, administration, charities and more. Then, through the UK Health Data Research Innovation Gateway, researchers can…
James Downs has dedicated over a decade to enhancing mental health services with his lived experience. Now, as a peer researcher, he uses personal insights combined with data science to push for more inclusive care. In this insightful Datamind blog post, James shares his journey into research and the role of lived experience in mental health data science….
On Thursday 25 April 2024, the DATAMIND and MQ Data Science Meeting took place in Swansea. The DATAMIND Hub maximises data’s value by safely and securely uniting data from many sources, including health records, schools and administrative data, charity data, research trials, genomics, longitudinal studies and cohort data. DATAMIND ensures data can be found through the UK…
In this blog post, Hatem Mona, Data Scientist/Psychiatry Epidemiologist at Population Psychiatry, Suicide and Informatics (PPSI), Swansea University and DATAMIND, shares with us his inspirational journey into research. What did you do before joining PPSI at Swansea University? Before working at Swansea University, I completed a master’s degree in Population Health from UCL, London, with…
