The Big Ideas - Episode 4: Future possibilities of mental health data

Welcome to The Big Ideas, a podcast series exploring how data shapes our understanding of health and inequalities and how to make the collection and use of data more inclusive to inspire a more equitable future. The podcast series is part of the Social and Economic Predictors of Severe Mental Disorders (SEP-MD) research project led by Dr Jayati Das-Munshi from King’s College London and affiliated with the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre. In the final episode of the series, ‘Future possibilities of mental health data’, host Milena Wuerth, Research Assistant, King’s College London is joined by Principal Investigator on the project Dr Jayati Das-Munshi, Clinical Reader in Social & Psychiatric Epidemiology, King’s College London, and Robert Stewart, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology & Clinical Informatics, King's College London. They explore how routine and linked data can be used to tackle and address mental health inequalities through informing policy, practical change and clinical interventions. They reflect on the future possibilities of linked health records data, to create health equity within systems. The Big Ideas was produced by Words of Colour: www.wordsofcolour.co.uk The Big Ideas is a special 4-part series of Our Sick Society. In this podcast, researchers from the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health and people with lived experience explore together how social factors contribute to mental health problems. The podcast encourages listeners to think and question society’s role in mental health - what are the systems and the structures which mean that some people are more likely to become mentally unwell than others?