معرفی
Dr. Yasmin Ahmadzadeh is a Research Fellow at King’s College London’s Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre (SGDP). Her research focuses on intergenerational mental health, with a particular emphasis on anxiety, depression, and the role of genetic and environmental factors in family transmission. She holds an ESRC fellowship exploring prenatal maternal mental health and child development using linked administrative data. She led the TRADE project investigating racism’s intergenerational impact on mental health. She co-founded the CoTEDS study, a longitudinal second-generation twin cohort examining emotional disorder origins.
- Affiliations: King’s College London, INHERIT Lab, SGDP Anti-Racism Working Group
- Education: PhD in Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (King’s College London), BSc Neuroscience (University of Manchester)
Her research interests include anti-racism in mental health, gene-environment interactions, and familial mental health dynamics. Notable contributions include qualitative work on racism’s intergenerational effects, meta-analyses on paternal anxiety impacts, and studies on self-harm initiation patterns.
Awards: Gottesman-Shields Prize (2023), ACAMH Awards (2022), ESRC Fellowships
Public Engagement: Coordinated INHERIT Lab’s public events linking racial trauma to mental health, contributed to mental health advocacy blogs, and advised on inclusive research practices.
