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Professor Jayati Das-Munshi is a Professor of Social & Psychiatric Epidemiology at King's College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), and an Honorary Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist with the South London & Maudsley NHS Trust. Her work focuses on leveraging large-scale data linkages to address mental health inequalities, particularly among racially minoritized populations and individuals with severe mental illnesses. She leads interdisciplinary projects such as the UKRI-funded Population Mental Health Consortium (PHI-UK) and co-leads the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health’s cohorts platform. Her research explores intersections of mental and physical health, pandemic impacts, and social determinants of health disparities.
Key affiliations include the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre and the Centre for Global Mental Health. Her academic background includes a PhD and clinical training in psychiatry. She advises national initiatives like the UK Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys and the WHO’s guidelines on physical health management in severe mental disorders.
Research interests span mental health inequities, data linkage methodologies, and interventions targeting marginalized communities. She co-leads the SEP-MD study linking health records with census data to analyze mortality and worklessness in severe mental illness. Recent work emphasizes pandemic effects on mental health trajectories and ethnic health disparities.
Her articles highlight themes like mental-physical health interplay, pandemic impacts, and systemic inequities. Grants include UKRI funding for population mental health improvement and ESRC support for societal mental health research. She collaborates with NHS trusts, universities, and advocacy groups to bridge research and policy.
She directs the PHI-UK consortium, fostering partnerships to prevent mental health onset via population-level strategies focusing on youth, suicide prevention, and multimorbidity. Ongoing projects include the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration and COVEIMM study on ethnic health inequalities during the pandemic.
