Mind meets money: how can data impact youth mental health policy and practice?
Event details
Data, money, evidence, policy and practice: as a researcher or clinician, have you ever felt frustrated that policy makers don’t follow the evidence? Or that usual practice is based on little evidence? Or that money could be better spent for child and adolescent mental health? If so, come to our next in-person research forum event where experts who work closely with policy makers will discuss the pathways and challenges of putting the data and resources into evidence-based policy making to inform everyday practice.
Programme
13:00 Participants take seats
13:05 Welcome by Prof Bernadka Dubicka, HYMS, Chair of YYMHRF
13:15 Dr David Zendle, Department of Psychology
13:55 Prof Tim Doran, Department of Health Sciences
14:35 Coffee break
15:00 Prof Richard Cookson, Centre for Health Economics (CHE)
15:30 Dr Amy Barker, Centre for Health Economics (CHE)
16:00 Prof Cheti Nicoletti, Department of Economics and Related Studies
16:30 Launch of Children and Young People’s Mental Health Policy Group by Prof Lina Gega, HYMS, Director of IMRY
17:00 Finish
Further information about the speakers and their talks
David Zendle is an expert in online behaviour, in particular gaming and loot boxes, and advises the government and OFCOM. He will discuss the challenges of policy in this area, and also showcase the new York Smart Data Donation Service which will be a leading hub for online behaviour research.
Tim Doran is an expert in health policy, and his research also focuses on health inequalities and the unintended consequences of policy making. He will draw on his considerable experience and also reflect on the challenges of policy implementation in highly controversial areas, where there is little agreement even among experts.
A trio of experts - Cookson, Barker and Nicoletti - will speak to the economics of mental health, in response to challenges faced by researchers, teachers, clinicians, policy makers, parents and the young people themselves. Their work involves complex methods that answer questions about the cost of specific mental health problems and the comparative value of relevant interventions and care pathways. With a new government in place, this is an ideal time to review how scarce funds are spent in services and what is the most cost-effective way of using our limited resources to prevent and improve poor mental health outcomes in children and young people.