About this event

  • Date and time Tue 3 May 2022 from 6:00pm to 7:40pm
  • Location Live stream - online
  • Organised by Psychiatry, The Lancet Psychiatry

This event has been cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

This is the live stream for the in-person meeting COVID-19 and mental health: What happened and what's next?

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges for clinicians and researchers in healthcare. Keeping track of the evolving situation in the midst of a flood of information is especially difficult.

This live stream, held jointly with the leading mental health journal The Lancet Psychiatry, provides a concise but comprehensive and authoritative summary of mental health and the COVID-19 pandemic, and what we can expect in the future. Leading experts in the field will summarize the impact of the pandemic on adult and child mental health, and the latest data regarding the neuropsychiatric effects of COVID-19.

The panel will also answer your questions about mental health and the pandemic. The meeting will give the audience a concise but comprehensive overview of the effects of the pandemic on population mental health broadly and on the mental health of children and young people, as well as the latest information on the neuropsychiatric sequelae. 

During this event you will:

  • Know about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic at a population level across all age groups.
  • Explore the effects of COVID-19 infection on mental health.
  • Understand possible future effects of the pandemic on mental health at population and individual levels.

This meeting is jointly held with The Lancet Psychiatry.

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Key speakers

Dr Joan Marsh

Dr Joan Marsh

Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Psychiatry

Speaker's biography

Dr Joan Marsh is the Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Psychiatry. She joined the Lancet group in November 2013 as Deputy Editor to help to launch The Lancet Psychiatry and continued in that role until November 2021. She now has overall responsibility for the journal and its development, which includes manuscript assessment, overseeing peer review, and commissioning content. Her particular project is the Editorial Board Development Programme. Joan read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, then completed a PhD in molecular biology. She worked as an editor with The Ciba/Novartis Foundation in London, editing and organizing their prestigious symposium series. 

Joan then spent several years in South-East Asia, including two years in Hong Kong, where she worked for Hong Kong University and for Excerpta Medica. Joan returned to the UK in September 1999 and became an editor with John Wiley & Sons, commissioning books in the life sciences and medicine. Joan is actively engaged with the European Association of Science Editors. She was on the Council for 12 years, including six as President. She is now Chair of its Gender Policy Committee, with a particular interest in improving diversity in peer review. She is also an Associate Editor for the Association’s journal, European Science Editing.

Professor Kathryn Abel

Professor of Psychological Medicine, Manchester University

Dr Tamsin Newlove-Delgado

Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Public Health, University of Exeter

Professor Paul Harrison

Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

Speaker's biography

Dr Harrison trained in medicine and psychiatry in Oxford and London, and was a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow before being appointed to his present post in 1997. He heads a research group investigating molecular, psychopharmacological and therapeutic aspects of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia – and now the psychiatric and neurological aspects of COVID-19. He has published over 330 papers, and several books, including the Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, and Schizophrenia (with Daniel Weinberger). Dr Harrison is a Theme Leader in the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, and an investigator in the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging. He has served on various funding committees, the REF2021 subpanel 4, and chaired an NHS Research Ethics Committee. Awards include the CINP/Paul Janssen Schizophrenia Prize (1998), the British Association for Psychopharmacology Senior Clinical Prize (1999), the A.E. Bennett Award of the Society of Biological Psychiatry (2004), the Joel Elkes Research Award of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2005), the CINP Lilly Clinical Neuroscience award (2010), and the ECNP Clinical Neuropsychopharmacology award (2012). Dr Harrison was President of the British Association for Psychopharmacology from 2014-2016.

Agenda

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Welcome and introduction
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected population mental health?

Professor Kathryn Abel, Professor of Psychological Medicine, Manchester University

COVID-19 and young people

Dr Tamsin Newlove-Delgado, Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Public Health, University of Exeter

The mental health of COVID-19 survivors: Studies using electronic health records

Professor Paul Harrison, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

Panel discussion
Close of meeting

Location

Live stream - online

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COVID-19 and mental health: What happened and what's next?

This event, held jointly with the leading mental health journal The Lancet Psychiatry, provides a concise but comprehensive and authoritative summary of what we know so far, and what we can expect in the future. Leading experts in the field will summarize the impact of the pandemic on adult and child mental health, and the latest data regarding the neuropsychiatric effects of COVID-19.

The panel will also answer your questions about mental health and the pandemic. The meeting will give the audience a concise but comprehensive overview of the effects of the pandemic on population mental health broadly and on the mental health of children and young people, as well as the latest information on the neuropsychiatric sequelae. 

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