Professor Jayati Das-Munshi
Professor of Social & Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Honorary Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist
Contact details
Biography
Professor Jayati Das-Munshi is Professor of Social & Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London and Honorary Consultant Liason Psychiatrist with South London & Maudsley NHS Trust.
Her work focuses on maximising the potential of large-scale and linked data to understand and tackle mental health inequalities, with a focus on the mental-physical health interface. Her earliest work harnessed data linkages between area-level measures and national surveys, to understand the role of neighbourhoods in patterning mental health inequities in racially minoritised people.
Subsequently, she led one of the first data linkages of census to electronic health records, at person-level, to understand the social and economic determinants of onset and outcomes in severe mental health conditions. She has also led work using linkages across routine records, to understand the reasons underlying excess mortality in people with severe mental disorders, more recently with a focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health disorders.
With Professor George Ploubidis (University College London), she co-leads the cohorts platform, in the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, where the team have undertaken cross-cohort analyses to understand impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on long-term trajectories of psychological distress. She is Co-Investigator for the ERISK cohort and for Lambeth HDRC, where she advises on data linkages.
She is Co-Director of the UKRI Population Health Improvement (PHI-UK), Population Mental Health Consortium, which she Directs with Dan Barrett (Thrive-LDN).
The PHI-UK population mental health consortium brings together 10+ partnerships across universities, local government, voluntary organisations and people with lived experience, to understand what can be done to prevent the onset of mental health problems, using insights from large-scale linked data. The consortium focusses on three challenge areas: children and young people, suicide and self-harm prevention, and multiple long-term conditions.
She has led work for the World Health Organisation (WHO), leading to guidelines for the management of physical health in people with severe mental illnesses. She is an advisor for the UK Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys, and has worked in an advisory capacity for the Office for Health Improvements and Disparities (OHID, previously Public Health England).
She is also an advisor to the Equalities Data Quality and Research Subgroup at NHS-E, which seeks to improve the quality of data collected on ethnicity and other protected characteristics across routine health records, nationally.
Research
Social and Economic Predictors of the Severe Mental Disorders: The SEP-MD Data Linkage Study
Linking health records and census data to advance understanding of mortality, in-patient admissions and worklessness among people with severe mental illness.
Project status: Ongoing
Centre for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) London
Supporting interdisciplinary research and innovation in and for London
COVID-19 Ethnic Inequalities in Mental health and Multimorbidities: COVE-IMM study
Informed by perspectives of people with lived experience, this study has explored how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated ethnic health inequalities
Project status: Completed
Population Mental Health Consortium
UK network to boost the role of research and the use of data to improve population health focused on children and young people, suicide and self-harm prevention and multiple long-term conditions.
News
Living alone is linked to poor health and unemployment amongst those with severe mental illness, study finds
New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London has shown that over three quarters of people with...
A Life Less Safe: telling the real stories of health inequities through research and film
Two new studies and an accompanying short film have described the experiences of racially minoritised groups with physical and mental health conditions...
People with severe mental illness more than four times as likely to die from pneumonia compared to the general population
New research suggests that people with severe mental illness face an increased risk of death due to infectious disease.
New £7M research investment to investigate population-based improvement of mental health
£7 million funding from UK Research and Innovation, has been awarded to lead partner King’s College London to establish a research theme in Population Mental...
Applications open for three new studentships at the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health
The ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health invite prospective students to apply for new studentships aligned with its key research areas, with a focus on...
Researchers call for better integration of mental health and alcohol services among minority ethnic groups
New research shows the association between alcohol use and mental health differs across minority ethnic groups, and provides insight into people’s reasons for...
People with severe mental illness at 50 per cent higher risk of death following COVID-19 infection
New research from King’s College London has found that people in the UK with severe mental illness were at increased risk of death from all causes following...
Exposure to air pollution is associated with increased use of psychiatric services in people with dementia
New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at king's College London has found exposure to air pollution is associated...
Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study Receives £2.3m Funding
The Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study has been backed by £2.3 million funding from the UKRI Medical Research Council to collect new...
Generational inequalities in mental health accelerated with the COVID-19 pandemic
Generational inequalities in mental health widened over the course of the UK’s COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new peer-reviewed study published in the...
Events
A Life Less Safe: invitation to a special screening at Brixton Ritzy
A film exploring the experiences of Black and other racially minoritised people living with severe mental health conditions during Covid-19.
Please note: this event has passed.
Ethnic Inequalities in Healthcare for people with multiple long-term conditions
Panelists will be discussing recent research and policy implications around ethnic inequalities in healthcare and care quality among people with multiple...
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
Bringing data together to understand employment, disability and health among people with severe mental illness
People from racialised minority groups diagnosed with severe mental illnesses may face greater social inequities, leading to worse outcomes following...
The story of the SEP-MD study: Why link data?
In this blog, the SEP-MD study team highlight the importance of their innovative project linking mental health hospital records with Census data.
Research
Social and Economic Predictors of the Severe Mental Disorders: The SEP-MD Data Linkage Study
Linking health records and census data to advance understanding of mortality, in-patient admissions and worklessness among people with severe mental illness.
Project status: Ongoing
Centre for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) London
Supporting interdisciplinary research and innovation in and for London
COVID-19 Ethnic Inequalities in Mental health and Multimorbidities: COVE-IMM study
Informed by perspectives of people with lived experience, this study has explored how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated ethnic health inequalities
Project status: Completed
Population Mental Health Consortium
UK network to boost the role of research and the use of data to improve population health focused on children and young people, suicide and self-harm prevention and multiple long-term conditions.
News
Living alone is linked to poor health and unemployment amongst those with severe mental illness, study finds
New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London has shown that over three quarters of people with...
A Life Less Safe: telling the real stories of health inequities through research and film
Two new studies and an accompanying short film have described the experiences of racially minoritised groups with physical and mental health conditions...
People with severe mental illness more than four times as likely to die from pneumonia compared to the general population
New research suggests that people with severe mental illness face an increased risk of death due to infectious disease.
New £7M research investment to investigate population-based improvement of mental health
£7 million funding from UK Research and Innovation, has been awarded to lead partner King’s College London to establish a research theme in Population Mental...
Applications open for three new studentships at the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health
The ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health invite prospective students to apply for new studentships aligned with its key research areas, with a focus on...
Researchers call for better integration of mental health and alcohol services among minority ethnic groups
New research shows the association between alcohol use and mental health differs across minority ethnic groups, and provides insight into people’s reasons for...
People with severe mental illness at 50 per cent higher risk of death following COVID-19 infection
New research from King’s College London has found that people in the UK with severe mental illness were at increased risk of death from all causes following...
Exposure to air pollution is associated with increased use of psychiatric services in people with dementia
New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at king's College London has found exposure to air pollution is associated...
Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study Receives £2.3m Funding
The Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study has been backed by £2.3 million funding from the UKRI Medical Research Council to collect new...
Generational inequalities in mental health accelerated with the COVID-19 pandemic
Generational inequalities in mental health widened over the course of the UK’s COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new peer-reviewed study published in the...
Events
A Life Less Safe: invitation to a special screening at Brixton Ritzy
A film exploring the experiences of Black and other racially minoritised people living with severe mental health conditions during Covid-19.
Please note: this event has passed.
Ethnic Inequalities in Healthcare for people with multiple long-term conditions
Panelists will be discussing recent research and policy implications around ethnic inequalities in healthcare and care quality among people with multiple...
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
Bringing data together to understand employment, disability and health among people with severe mental illness
People from racialised minority groups diagnosed with severe mental illnesses may face greater social inequities, leading to worse outcomes following...
The story of the SEP-MD study: Why link data?
In this blog, the SEP-MD study team highlight the importance of their innovative project linking mental health hospital records with Census data.