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The MHPRU team, listed below, consists of academics with expertise in child and adult mental health, including methodological specialists in statistics, health economics, sociology, implementation science and service user and carer involvement in research.
Management team
- Prof Sonia Johnson - Director, Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry, UCL
- Prof Alan Simpson - Co-Director, Professor of Mental Health Nursing, KCL
- Dr Bryn Lloyd-Evans - Deputy Director, Senior Lecturer, UCL
- Dr Kylee Trevillion - Deputy Director, Lecturer, KCL
Researchers
- Dr Becky Appleton - Research Fellow, UCL
- Dr Phoebe Barnett, Research Fellow, UCL
- Natasha Lyons - Research Assistant, UCL
- Dr Nafiso Ahmed - Research Fellow, UCL
- Dr Andrew Grundy - Public Involvement and Engagement Lead, UCL
- Patrick Nyikavaranda - Public Involvement and Engagement Lead, UCL
- Nathalie Rich - Administration Assistant, UCL
Co-Applicants
- Stephen Pilling - Professor of Clinical Psychology & Clinical Effectiveness, UCL
- David Osborn - Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology, UCL
- Julian Edbrooke-Childs - Professor of Evidence-Based Child and Adolescent Mental Health, UCL
- Patrick Nyikavaranda - Lived Experience and EDI co-lead, UCL
- Rowena Jacobs - Professor of Health Economics, York
- Juliana Onwumere – Reader in Clinical Psychology, KCL
- Rina Dutta – Reader in Suicidology & Psychiatry, KCL
- Martin Webber - Professor of Social Work, York
- Polly Waite – Associate Professor of Psychology, Oxford
- Neil Davies – Professor of Medical Statistics, UCL
- Julian Childs – Professor of Evidence-Based Child and Adolescent Mental Health, UCL
- Annette Boaz – Professor of Health and Social Care, KCL
The core PRU team will be supported by a network of consultants and advisors who bring additional specialist expertise across most areas of mental health care.
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