This study found that only 6.9% of people with mental and substance use disorders received effective treatment, with major barriers including low perceived need, inadequate treatment contact, and insufficient treatment quality. https://t.co/q25fbpuFGt

Check out @JuliaRzPz and company's recent publication, "A Narrative-Gamified Mental Health App (Kuamsha) for Adolescents in Uganda: Mixed Methods Feasibility and Acceptability Study"

Our new article in The Conversation (@TC_Africa) summarizes our study on refugee mental health in East Africa and the knock-on effects on jobs, income, and overall health. https://t.co/HuCXBGul6B Written with @oliviersterck, @raphaelBBrink, and @MariaFStierna! 🙌

📢 Exciting news! @TheBJPsych Open is calling for papers for a new themed series on mental health and economics, co-edited by Judit Simon, Henry Cutler, Apostolos Tsiachristas, and myself. Submit your research by March 31, 2025! 👉

'We Need a New Global Measure for Poverty' The battle against global poverty has become less central to the global development agenda. One reason for that is that the world is not measuring adequately — the daily poverty of billions of people is, therefore, not visible. In my

📢📢📢 BJPsych Open from @TheBJPsych is calling for papers for a new themed series in 2024/25 related to #mentalhealth #Economics with Judit Simon from @MedUni_Wien as Editor. 🗓️Closing date for submissions is 31 March 2025. Find out more at 👇 https://t.co/Y0G4e3qDro

It is always our pleasure @SangathBhopal to have collaborators join us for project review meetings- to discuss project progress in person, celebrate the successes and plan to respond to the challenges. We recently met for the OptimizeD bi-annual review meeting over 2.5 days

1/3 📢 Exciting news for #digitalmentalhealth companies! 🎉 @wellcometrust is launching a funding call in July 2024, focusing on scalable digital mental health interventions. 🧠💻Join us to learn how! 👉

📢My team @wellcometrust is #hiring a Research Manager in Evidence for Mental Health🧵 💷£45,696 🔒 Closes 24th March 📨 Apply https://t.co/m7TUlgbyUp PhD not essential but candidates need expertise in relation to at least one area of mechanistic mental health science

Thirty years of rural health research: South Africa’s Agincourt studies offer unique insights https://t.co/LQPepia0YI via @TC_Africa @AgincourtHDSS @WitsSPH @RyanGWagner @WitsHealthFac @JacDToit @JuliaRzPz

In the 3rd week of Jan 2024, the OptimizeD project team collaborators met in Bhopal to discuss preliminary results from the pilot study & next steps as we prepare for the main trial's initiation in March Project funded @NIMHgov @SangathIndia @SangathBhopal @JuliaRzPz @AbhijitRR

New paper on implementing precision medicine in personalizing psychological treatments: https://t.co/eiHjUSZpSD Too many amazing authors to tag all: @DepressionLab @lluaces @JSchleiderPhD @DrEhrenreich @EikoFried @ChrisWebbPhD @cgbeevers @aaronjfisher @clbockting @NC_Jacobson

@BiancaMoffett1 @alansteinoxford @HeatherWillis18 @AgincourtHDSS

Our new paper describes the development process of the Kuamsha app, a gamified mental health app for adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa. 🙌 Thank you to our amazing team & the 160 adolescents who shaped the app! Stay tuned for more on the app's feasibility and acceptability

Warm best wishes to our retiring Chair of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry @alansteinoxford who is taking on an exciting post @BlavatnikSchool Alan has been at the forefront of world-leading research in child & adolescent psychiatry for decades. Read more: https://t.co/4IuI78gXZF

Our @TheLancetPsych paper describes a digital tool https://t.co/jfchQvzQwB that facilitates evidence-based, personalised, and collaborative antidepressant and antipsychotic prescribing based on medication side-effects. https://t.co/AxkPZdKFp3 1/n

We’re recruiting for the professorship of child psychiatry in Oxford: https://t.co/ozSPbIvQIq Come and join our amazing team @OxPsychiatry @LinacreCollege

My @TEDTalks is now online. I argue that we have the opportunity to build a world where we can all live well, and tackle our environmental problems at the same time. This is possible, but not inevitable. We have to push to make that a reality. https://t.co/16rQBiJ7E8

📢📚 NEW research: Don’t miss this article from @oliviersterck @juliarzpz @raphaelBBrink & Maria Flinder Stierna, investigating the prevalence of depression among East African #refugees Read more ⬇️ @BMJMentalHealth #OpenAccess

We are delighted to welcome @MaxCRoser as our new Professor of Practice in Global Data Analytics! Max is the founder and director of @OurWorldInData and Director of the @oxmartinschool Programme on Global Development (1/2)