The Social and Economic Predictors of the Severe Mental Disorders (SEP-MD) project links data from the Census with clinical records from one of Europe’s largest secondary mental health providers, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health care to an ethnically diverse, urbanised location in South East London.
This data linkage is unique. Researchers are analysing data to better understand relationships between mental health, employment, ethnicity and overlapping forms of disadvantage.

The aim is to inform current service, treatment and policy concerns relating to the severe mental illnesses.

The video discusses the project and features interviews with:

Dr Jayati Das Munshi – Principal Investigator on SEP-MD and Clinical Reader in Social and Psychiatric Epidemiology, King’s College London

Rosanna Hidersley - Research Assistant on SEP-MD, King’s College London

Ed Davie - Policy and Public Affairs Lead, Centre for Mental Health

Katherine Barrett – Service User Advisor