Talk: 

How advances in data analytics can be used to support secondary care mental health services

Ciarán O’Driscoll, is an Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at UCL and Programme Director of the Clinical Associate in Psychology course.

Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/32922-ciaran-o'driscoll

Ciarán is a clinical psychologist with considerable experience in teaching professionals working in mental health services, but also in novel data analytic approaches to better understand mental health and treatment response. Ciarán works with international collaborators developing novel approaches to understanding to inter-relations between mental health symptoms, and supports work in NHS services using routinely collected dataset.

In this talk, Ciarán will present research using clinical information collected in secondary care mental health services that has been used to support how care is provided. In addition, Ciarán will discuss how data science approaches can provide further developments in mental health research to support clinical practice.

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About the Mental Health Theme Webinar Series 

Using data science to identify and reduce inequalities in mental health care. 

There are known inequalities in access to mental health treatment across different groups of people. There are also observed differences in the likelihood of benefitting from treatment for those who are able to access support. As the number of people who are suffering from mental health disorders is increasing globally, there are concerns this will further exacerbate these inequalities.  Advances in data science have the potential to identify those most at risk, and how we might provide better care for these groups. 

This webinar series brings together researchers and clinicians working in mental health to hear about ways in which data science might be used to support how treatments are provided.