Prof Jonathan Burns Honorary Professor of Psychiatry University of Exeter Medical School Email: [email protected] UoE Research in Mental Health Clive Ballard – PVC & Dean of UEMS – management and prevention of cognitive decline and dementia; including RCTs, drug discovery, stem cells [email protected] Linda Clare – Centre for Research in Ageing and Cognitive Health (REACH http://psychology.exeter.ac.uk/reach/) - 6-year cohort study on improving well being, life satisfaction and QOL for people with dementia; RCT on cognitive rehabilitation in early dementia Jonathan Mill – Professor of Epigenetics and Director of the Complex Disease Epigenetics Group (www.epigenomicslab.com), is a global research leader in the epigenetics of Alzheimer’s Disease, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, autism and outcomes of childhood trauma. He is interested in collaboration in genomics [email protected] David Llewellyn – epidemiology & neuropsychology of dementia; systems biology; cognitive assessment, diagnostic pathways; predictive modeling [email protected] David Richards – Director, Academy of Nursing and Prof of Mental Health Services Research; complex psychological interventions, [email protected] Chris Dickens – Prof of Psychological Medicine; common mental disorders and comorbid chronic medical illnesses; mechanisms, complex interventions, clinical trials, [email protected] Rose McCabe - Prof of Clinical Communication; novel complex interventions to improve communication, therapeutic relationship & outcomes in mental health care [email protected] Tamsin Ford – Prof of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry; the effectiveness of services and interventions supporting the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people, with a particular focus on schools; epidemiology, clinical trials [email protected] Vashti Berry - SRF at PenCLAHRC - designing, adapting and testing parenting interventions aimed at improving/protecting/supporting children’s well-being and mental health when they have been exposed to violence, primarily domestic violence [email protected] Stuart Logan – Prof of Paediatric Epidemiology, Director of IHR, UEMS; child health epidemiology; interventions; health services [email protected] Celia Morgan – Prof of Psychopharmacology; effects of drugs (cannabis, MDMA, ketamine) and alcohol on the brain and behaviour (including in people with a history of trauma); [email protected] Ed Watkins – Prof of Experimental & Applied Clinical Psychology; worry and rumination as transdiagnostic vulnerability factors for the onset and maintenance of anxiety and depression and as a mediating variable from adverse childhood experiences to poor mental health [email protected] Huw Williams – Centre for Clinical Neuropsychology Research (CCNR) has pilot collaboration with UCT focused on neuropsychological mechanisms following TBI in young people and related to later violent behavior [email protected] Anna Adlam – Neuropsychologist; researches neuropsychological outcomes of paediatric brain injury [email protected] Anke Karl – Director of MDC Biobehavioural Lab; biobehavioural underpinnings of PTSD and recovery from psychological trauma [email protected] Lora Fleming – Director of European Centre for Environment and Human Health; [email protected] Ben Wheeler – SRF, ECEHH; health geography and spatial epidemiology; health inequalities [email protected] Alison Haggett – History of psychiatry & mental illness [email protected] Ginny Russell – Sociology of mental health and developmental disorders [email protected] INCET-INTREPID studies of psychosis INCET Fogarty/NIMH funded R21 to pilot methods for an incidence study of psychosis in rural Vulindlela, KZN [Burns & Susser] INTREPID MRC-funded pilot and now 5-year programme researching psychosis in LMIC settings (India, Nigeria, Trinidad) – [Morgan, Cohen]. Burns & Susser steering committee members. PLAN: • UKZN (Chiliza) – Exeter (Burns) collaboration • Site: Msunduzi/Vulindlela, KZN (500 000 pop) • Identify all gatekeepers of FEP – formal & informal providers • Approx 500 FEP cases & controls – with 2-year follow-up Methods: • Epidemiology & social epidemiology (=/- spatial epi) – role of cannabis, early trauma, poverty, HIV, migration, etc • Genomics, epigenomics, GxE • Anthropology/ethnography, lived experience • Pathways, MH systems & policy Strategy: To enable cross-context comparisons with INTREPID To explore aspects that are specific to the SA context To provide a platform for later studies (e.g. genetics/epi), and in particular for intervention studies including clinical trials and health services interventions..