Published today! Important findings, innovative methodological approach and difficult messages we need to hear and learn from. Laura Nellums Professor Manish Pareek Jon Chaloner Amani Al-Oraibi Fatimah Wobi Anuj Kapilashrami [She/her]
equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Staff statement to University of Manchester's Board of Governors and Senate.

The filing for ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant will make UoM materially complicit in crimes against humanity. Here's why: 🧵1/2

This week is #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek . In our latest Data Impact blog post, Dr Patsy Irizar (she/her) shares about some new research using Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) data looking at ethnic minority groups at risk of poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read it here: blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/evens-mental-h…

Today marks the anniversary of the Nakba, when 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes.

The Nakba didn't end in 1948. It is an ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing, violence and occupation.

Our solidarity lives on - we will never give up on the Palestinian people.

🚨🚨Great job alert!

Working with the fantastic Dr Habib Naqvi MBE and his wonderful team

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New article on ethnic inequalities in mental health during COVID-19 from Dr Patsy Irizar (she/her) & UKDS Impact

UoM School of Social Sciences

🆕NEW on the Data Impact blog 🆕
Dr Patsy Irizar (Dr Patsy Irizar (she/her)), Simon Fellow at the University of Manchester, discusses how COVID-19 impacted the mental health of ethnic minority people using new data from Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS)
Read it here: blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/evens-mental-h…
#data #research #blog

#EQW2024 It’s essential that leaders identify, and are held accountable for, how they implement transformational change to achieve racial equity in the workplace - in a way that ultimately leads to equitable opportunities for all.
Via The Lancet :

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

I wrote a blog for the UKDataService summarising the findings from my recent analysis which compared levels of common mental disorders across ethnic groups in the UK, using data from Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/evens-mental-h…

University of Manchester Staff in Solidarity with Palestine declare their full support and solidarity with Manchester Camp of Resistance for Palestine in a statement sent to the University’s senior management. 🧵 1/3

Please give our Mental health and Alcohol treatment Pathways (MAP) project Twitter account a follow Mental Health and Alcohol Disorder Pathways - working to improve treatment pathways for those with co-occurring mental health and alcohol disorders (based at Lancaster University)

NEW: Prevalence of common mental disorders across 18 ethnic groups in Britain during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Dr Patsy Irizar (she/her) et al using Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS)

📌Anxiety rates 2-3 higher for some grps compared w/ White British - we must reduce barriers to care.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Dr Zoe Williams, 'As a GP, to suggest that somebody who is meeting a person who doesn't just have a mental health condition, or a physical health condition, they have a life, they have a family. Our lives are complicated. The things that dictate whether or not we're able to work

We have just published a paper in Epidemiology & Psychiatric Sciences that used data from the Airwave Health Monitoring Study to explore sickness absence in 40,343 UK police employees. Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S20457…

Black mothers are over twice as likely to be admitted to hospital with perinatal mental illnesses than their white counterparts, a Guardian analysis of NHS figures shows, with the racial disparity being described as “horrifying”.

theguardian.com/world/article/…