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Jude Stansfield
@judestansfield.bsky.social
Public Health. Mental health & wellbeing. Community-centred approaches and systems. CHPR@LeedsBeckett. PhD. FFPH.
Cohort 4 of the Public Mental Health Leadership programme @rcpsych met today - 30 inspirational psychiatrists & co. with passion and ambition to shift practice and systems towards prevention, advocate for mental healthy equity and work with public health colleagues. www.rcpsych.ac.uk/events/confe...
The Public Mental Health Leadership Certification course
The Public Mental Health Leadership Certification course is a new type of hybrid eLearning and webinar course developed by the Public Mental Health Implementation Centre (PMHIC), eLearning Hub and the...
www.rcpsych.ac.uk
September 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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📢Latest guest blog from Public Health specialists Jude Stansfield, Ian Walker and Claire Robson on why we need national leadership for the public’s mental health www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/why-we-need-... #PublicMentalHealth
#MentalHealthLeadership #Prevention #HealthEquity #PublicHealth
September 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Mental health can be prevented, and wellbeing improved, but it takes leadership, collaboration & community action.

In a recent blog, Jude Stansfield, Ian Walker & Claire Robson share insights from their work with Public Health England’s Public Mental Health programme
www.fph.org.uk/blog/where-i...
Where is national leadership for public mental health?
The nation’s wellbeing can be improved. Mental health conditions can be prevented, but this doesn’t just happen automatically, or easily. It needs the organised efforts of the whole of society and sys...
www.fph.org.uk
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Calling all Public Health team leads for Healthy Communities (England LAs)- please look out for my survey into uptake of community-centred approaches. Its 10 years since we published the ‘family’ and we want to share the learning.
September 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Neighbourhood health will only work if it includes mental health! + 6 great tips for practice from www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/publications...
No Neighbourhood Health Without Mental Health - Centre for Mental Health
Embedding mental health support in NHS integrated neighbourhood teams.
www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk
August 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
WHO’s new report on social determinants and health equity. Great to see implementation of community-centred action and research as a recommendation. www.who.int/teams/social...
World Report on Social Determinants of Health Equity
www.who.int
May 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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The FPH is deeply concerned about the announced £4.8 billion cut to disability and health-related benefits.

This cut comes at a time of rising poverty and directly undermines the government’s aim of tackling health inequalities and child poverty.

www.fph.org.uk/news/fph-res...
FPH response to Government's disability and health-related benefit cuts
The Faculty of Public Health is deeply concerned about the risk of growing poverty and health inequity, following the UK Government’s announcement of £4.8 billion cut to disability and health-related ...
www.fph.org.uk
April 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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The rate of patients dying by suicide shortly after discharge from mental health units has increased in recent years, with researchers calling for better post-discharge support.
www.hsj.co.uk/mental-healt...
Poor support ‘driving rise in deaths after discharge’
The rate of patients dying by suicide shortly after discharge from mental health units has increased in recent years, with researchers calling for better post-discharge support.
www.hsj.co.uk
March 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Thanks to Yorkshire and Humber colleagues for working hard today on strengthening the regional approach to community-centred public health, using appreciative inquiry. @adphuk.bsky.social 🤩
March 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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public health approaches

You'd think I like this stuff. I dont. Folk often ask me why....

strap in - a🧵
March 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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And please register today for our next #PublicHealthSpaces meeting for Faculty members to discuss community-based approaches to health with Jason Strelitz, Anne Bowers, and @judestansfield.bsky.social.

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Community-centred approaches to health are key to tackle health inequalities and improve health and wellbeing at local level.

Book your place for the next #PublicHealthSpaces meeting for FPH members with Jason Strelitz, Anne Bowers and @judestansfield.bsky.social ➡️ www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
March 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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🙌Very excited to share our new support network for mental health and/or addiction research academics with lived experience. We have called it LENS (Lived Experience Network for Scholars). Read more and sign up on Eventbrite for our 1st online meeting in May: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lived-expe...
Lived Experience Network for Scholars (LENS) Online Meet-up
An support and information network for academic mental health and addiction researchers with lived experience
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Research from @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social shows that over 54% of Britons said that mental health is the biggest health problem.

Securing better mental health for more people will create a fairer and healthier future for us all.

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10 Year Health Plan | Public Perceptions Of The Government's Three Shifts | The King's Fund
What do the public think of the 'three shifts' proposed by the government's10 Year Health Plan? Find out more in this long read, written in collaboration with the team from Ipsos.
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March 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Community-centred approaches to health are key to tackle health inequalities and improve health and wellbeing at local level.

Book your place for the next #PublicHealthSpaces meeting for FPH members with Jason Strelitz, Anne Bowers and @judestansfield.bsky.social ➡️ www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
March 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I hear DHSC wants to hear more from #publichealth staff (i assume that's not just NHS) about views on the #10yearplan. Some national listening events here, an opportunity to get heard on the three shifts, inc #prevention changenhs.staffevents.co.uk/events/chang...
November 29, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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📢 🎓Vacancy @popmhuk.bsky.social / @kingsioppn.bsky.social
Research Associate/Research Fellow. Exciting opportunity to develop a programme of work examining upstream social determinants of mental health. Closes 8 Dec
www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/mini... @pubhealthjobsuk.bsky.social
Research Associate/Research Fellow in Population Mental Health job with KINGS COLLEGE LONDON | 384309
About us In April 2024, IoPPN, King’s College London led the establishment of a national disseminated population mental health consortium, as part ...
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2024 at 10:36 AM