'A methodology to identify priorities in mental health research applied to youth anxiety and depression'
Chair: Cathy Creswell

Mental health research is ripe for investment. Globally, only 4% of all research funding between 2015 and 2019 was spent on mental health research. Moreover, while anxiety and depression arise in adolescence, only one-third of investment into mental health research relates to young people, the vast majority of this from HIC, based on assumptions from these countries and scarcely translatable into other contexts. Only 4% of published mental health research originates from LMIC, where most of the world’s youth population resides.

The traditional translational research pathway, from basic research to human studies, to patients, to practice and lastly to wide populations takes around 17 years, and even longer to reach people in LMICs. While increasing the volume of financing is clearly part of the solution, there is a fundamental question about what are the most important areas to direct research for it to have global impact?
Date: 24 May 2022, 9:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2022)
Venue: Online, via Zoom - For link to attend, information and to register please contact the host: diana.verley@psych.ox.ac.uk
Speakers: Mr Lea Milligan (MQ), Mariana Bolivar (MQ)
Organising department: Department of Psychiatry
Organiser contact email address: diana.verley@psych.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Psychiatry Seminars
Booking required?: Recommended
Booking email: diana.verley@psych.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Public
Editor: Diana Verley