Deeply saddened at the passing of a visionary. Lea was always so encouraging, a warm person, and passionate about mental health. Always supporting researchers in making an impact, having a voice! Thoughts with Lea’s family, his children and the MQ team x

🆕️ paper: we had really exciting conversations about the bio-exposome, childhood adversity, environnement & health trajectories, led by ProfMinnis ⭐ with Fred Ho
JillPell Anne-Laura van Harmelen
Rebecca Reynolds, Ruchika Gajwani P Shiels et al

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Centre of Developmental Adversity and Resilience (CeDAR) invites you to Glasgow: 5th International Child & Adolescent MH conference; Dr Gauri Devan Pattie Gonsalves from Sangath Etheldreda Nakimuli, ProfMinnis Ruchika Gajwani Lea Milligan 💙 (He/Him) 🌈 #Autism #innovations #Communityengagement

Our failure to #PrioritiseChildHealth also threatens the UK's economic prosperity, estimated to cost at least £16 billion a year.

Prof Helen Minnis spoke with Sky News on why investment in the early years is crucial for the UK's future.

Read the report: acmedsci.ac.uk/child-health

Thinking about what #mentalhealth conferences to attend in 2024?

Add this one to the list: get an international perspective without the jet lag!

Ruchika Gajwani University of Glasgow MQ Sangath Makerere University

mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/5th-internatio…

This is such a well researched, important report ProfMinnis Clear case for reducing poverty and inequalities and investing in early childhood. Better for children now and for their future, better for communities and society rcpsychCAP Sebastian Kraemer 💙 #EndFossil @RCPCHPresident Trudi Seneviratne 🌠

Clinical Child Psychiatrist Fellowship at University of Glasgow ⁦ProfMinnis⁩ and A&A NHS #CAP #ClinicalResearch ⁦@ACE_Centre_UoG⁩ ⁦MHWGlasgow⁩ please get in touch! jobs.ac.uk/job/DAG105/cli…

With >40 colleagues working in child and adolescent mental health, we want to raise an important issue, published next month in @TheLancetPsych.

Put simply: we *need* timely access to mental health data and that is currently not happening.

thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

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Scotland is one of the first countries in the world to generate an Infant pledge, to commit to voice from birth and give guidance to engage in a rights based approach for our youngest children #pnimhpb

Check out our campaign on @GLASubwayTravelHave you seen it? We’re looking for participants who experience persistent difficulties with emotions and relationships. 14-24 in Glasgow to take part. Go to our website for more info bridgeproject.co.uk
MQ MHWGlasgow

Thrilled to share this news, officially this time. Will take this opportunity to acknowledge the support of many who made this possible. First of all the funding agency itself MQ for recognizing the value of the idea we put forth in the project.

WestCollegeScotland hosting another brilliant well-being day. Amazing to meet third sector colleagues doing incredible work engaging young people Carers of West Dun North West Recovery Communities @bigdisability #mentalhealth #thirdsector #carersupport

Today we are delighted to be announcing our largest ever investment in new #MentalHealthResearch through our #MQFellows programme.

7 new projects that examine how serious mental illnesses and physical illnesses can combine to cause premature death.

👉 mqmentalhealth.org/mq-fellows-202…

“The 21st century is a giant knotted intersectional problem of intergenerational justice, interracial justice, international justice.” How do we get the global north and south to collaborate? ⁦Rahul Raina⁩ #intersectionality theguardian.com/environment/20…

“The most visible narratives are the most privileged ones” Raj Mariwala Mariwala Health Initiative speaking about the ‘default’ frames of reference in #MentalHealth systems. If we aim to bridge gaps in mental health, we must start by de-centring cis hetro- normative ableism #IAYMH2022

“There is a lot of innovation that comes out of constraint..we have to move beyond a beneficiary approach to a partnership approach” Wow! excellent presentation by @jihadbnimoussa #community #publichealth #iaymh2022 IEPA

This is the paper I’ve been waiting for, phew! So many patents with BOTH NDCs and ACEs. Thank you 🙏 Double jeopardy: implications of neurodevelopmental conditions and adverse childhood experiences for child health | SpringerLink link.springer.com/article/10.100…

ProfMinnis Ruchika Gajwani Well done on a great and really important paper - not just for psychiatrists
We hope that the need for updated and nuanced understanding of neurodevelopmental conditions in child and adult services, will grow from strong multidisciplinary partnerships and co-production