Talk: 

How data can support children’s mental health services

Peter Fonagy, is the Head of Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL and the National Clinical Advisor of the NHS England Young People’s Mental Health Programme.

Profile:  https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/7792-peter-fonagy

Peter has dedicated his career to mental health, and was recently awarded a CBE for services to the mental health of children. His research spans the development of psychological interventions, leading controlled trials and evaluations of mental health programmes as well as novel work to understand mechanisms in the development and maintained of mental health problems.

In this talk, Peter will present some of the recent developments in children mental health research, including how clinical insights can be informed by the use of new approaches to data.