king's college london health services research

• Population Health Sciences
• Life Sciences & Medicine
• Life Course & Population Sciences
• Phone 02078486604
• Email [email protected]
• Website https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sphes/our-departments/population-health-sciences

United Kingdom

Organisation profile

Based across King’s Guy’s and Denmark Hill campuses, we combine over 160 experts with patients and the public to better understand population health and primary care, social sciences and policy, epidemiology, statistics and health economics.

Our academics use large data sets to evaluate therapies, models of care and highlight inequalities in access to treatment. We have transformed stroke rehabilitation, linked antidepressant use to weight gain and uncovered the connections between urban deprivation and long-term health problems.

We teach the next generation of physiotherapists and deliver general practice training to every medical student at King’s. Our clinicians work with King’s Health Partners in London , across the NHS and in Somaliland, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of the Congo through our Centre for Global Health & Health Partnerships.

We are integrated with major National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) infrastructures. We lead the data analytics cluster within the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and the Stroke and Public Health themes within the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) South London . We host the NIHR Research Design Service London , and the NIHR Clinical Research Network National Speciality Hub .

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• Patient Medicine and Dentistry 100%
• Therapeutic Procedure Medicine and Dentistry 39%
• Primary Health Care Medicine and Dentistry 34%
• Health Medicine and Dentistry 34%
• Analysis Medicine and Dentistry 33%
• Apoplexy Medicine and Dentistry 33%
• Randomized Controlled Trial Medicine and Dentistry 32%
• Primary Medical Care Nursing and Health Professions 27%

Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

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Hassan Abbas

Person: Master of Philosophy

Dina Abudawood

• Political Economy and Institutions

Person: Doctor of Philosophy, PhD

Salha Alasiri

Person: Doctor of Philosophy

Research output

• 398445 Citations
• 5345 Article
• 247 Meeting abstract
• 232 Chapter
• 224 Conference paper
• 167 Review article
• 139 Editorial
• 59 Comment/debate
• 47 Commissioned report
• 47 Literature review
• 41 Meeting Abstract
• 35 Poster abstract
• 33 Other contribution
• 12 Book/Film/Article review
• 9 Other chapter contribution
• 9 Working paper
• 3 Short survey
• 2 Conference contribution
• 2 Featured article
• 1 Entry in encyclopedia/dictionary
• 1 Foreword/postscript
• 1 Special issue
• 1 Data set/Database

Research output per year

) The Children and Young People’s Health Partnership Evelina London Model of Care: economic evaluation of a complex system change

Research output : Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Accelarated immune ageing is associated with COVID-19 disease severity

• COVID-19 100%
• Cytotoxic T-Cell 57%
• T-Helper Cell 28%

Access to adolescent sexual and reproductive health services in Accra, Ghana: An exploratory qualitative study

• Health Service 100%
• Reproductive Public Health 100%
• Qualitative Study 100%
• Reproductive Health 100%
• Experience 25%
• 5 Not started
• 738 Finished

Projects per year

The prevalence of RYR1-related disease

Jungbluth, H. & Wang, Y.

RYR1 Foundation

1/09/2024 → 31/08/2026

Project : Research

COLMA: CO-morbid Long-term disease Management in the Americas: blended intervention (COLMA)

Araya Baltra, R. & Murdoch, J.

NIHR National Institute For Health & Care Research

1/07/2024 → 30/06/2029

PRISMA: Multimorbidity and social inequalities among Indigenous communities in Brazil

British Academy

30/06/2024 → 29/12/2025

• 110 Participation in conference
• 73 Publication peer-review
• 36 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
• 35 Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
• 29 Types of External academic engagement - Membership of external research organisation
• 26 Editorial activity
• 24 Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk
• 19 Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
• 13 Participation in workshop, seminar, course
• 9 Membership of network
• 8 Invited talk
• 7 Membership of committee
• 5 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
• 4 Types of Business and Community - Work on advisory panel to industry or government or non-government organisation
• 3 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
• 2 Types of External academic engagement - Research and Teaching at External Organisation
• 2 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Work on advisory panels for social community and cultural engagement
• 1 Types of Award - Fellowship awarded competitively
• 1 Types of Award - Other distinction
• 1 Types of Award - Prize (including medals and awards)
• 1 Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
• 1 Oral presentation
• 1 Visiting an external academic institution

Activities per year

EASD Annual meeting

Thamer Alobaid (Keynote/plenary speaker)

Activity : Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference

Student theses

Access to online services for sexually transmitted infection self-sampling at home.

Supervisor: Baraitser, P. (Supervisor) & Bakolis, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

Accomplishing technical and investigative expertise in crime scene investigation

Alcohol handrubs - what do nhs service users know about correct use.

Supervisor: Douiri, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis : Master's Thesis › Master of Science

A Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Practice (PGCAP)

Ayis, Salma (Recipient), 2012

Prize : Fellowship awarded competitively

• Postgraduates 100%
• Certificate 100%

Appointed Member - British Medical Association- Medical Ethics Committee

Venkatapuram, Sridhar (Recipient), 2022

Prize : Appointment

Appointed Member - Public Health Ethics

Venkatapuram, Sridhar (Recipient), 2020

All-cause and cause-specific mortality in people with mental disorders and intellectual disabilities, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: cohort study

Affiliations.

• 1 King's College London, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neurosciences, London, United Kingdom.
• 2 South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
• 3 ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
• 4 Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
• 5 Global Health Program, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
• 6 King's College London, Centre for Implementation Science, Health Services and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, United Kingdom.
• 7 King's College London, Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, United Kingdom.
• 8 King's College London, Health Services and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, United Kingdom.
• PMID: 34877563
• PMCID: PMC8639185
• DOI: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100228

Background: People with mental disorders and intellectual disabilities experience excess mortality compared with the general population. The impact of COVID-19 on exacerbating this, and in widening ethnic inequalities, is unclear.

Methods: Prospective data (N=167,122) from a large mental healthcare provider in London, UK, with deaths from 2019 to 2020, used to assess age- and gender-standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) across nine psychiatric conditions (schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, affective disorders, somatoform/ neurotic disorders, personality disorders, learning disabilities, eating disorders, substance use disorders, pervasive developmental disorders, dementia) and by ethnicity.

Findings: Prior to the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring COVID-19 a public health emergency on 30th January 2020, all-cause SMRs across all psychiatric cohorts were more than double the general population. By the second quarter of 2020, when the UK experienced substantial peaks in COVID-19 deaths, all-cause SMRs increased further, with COVID-19 SMRs elevated across all conditions (notably: learning disabilities: SMR: 9.24 (95% CI: 5.98-13.64), pervasive developmental disorders: 5.01 (95% CI: 2.40-9.20), eating disorders: 4.81 (95% CI: 1.56-11.22), schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: 3.26 (95% CI: 2.55-4.10), dementia: 3.82 (95% CI: 3.42, 4.25) personality disorders 4.58 (95% CI: 3.09-6.53)). Deaths from other causes remained at least double the population average over the whole year. Increased SMRs were similar across ethnic groups.

Interpretation: People with mental disorders and intellectual disabilities were at a greater risk of deaths relative to the general population before, during and after the first peak of COVID-19 deaths, with similar risks by ethnicity. Mortality from non-COVID-19/ other causes was elevated before/ during the pandemic, with higher COVID-19 mortality during the pandemic.

Funding: ESRC (JD, CM), NIHR (JD, RS, MH), Health Foundation (JD), GSK, Janssen, Takeda (RS).

© 2021 The Authors.

Grants and funding

• MR/V028383/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom
• MR/V049879/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom