James Lathe

🤔 Ever wondered how economic evaluations measure and attribute value to mental health? Do they do so fairly? I’m excited to announce (to my handful of followers) that my first PhD paper is now available @TheLancetPsych. Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iUfp7tf1d52… 1/6

@NIHRresearch #CRFBRC25 parallel session this afternoon on Health Economics- What is it and why is it important in research. With @OxHealthBRC @apostolos @Lathe_J Really useful recap for me and enjoyed the interactive poll questions - thought 💭 provoking @LeicResearch

This paper has been in the making for so long that eight children across the co-author group were born between the time we started and now! But it is finally out, and you can check it at arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13323

1/ What do people perceive as causes for depression, poverty, & mortality—and are social or non-social causes more important? New preregistered study led by Emma Bridger in a n=1000 UK sample, including a wide variety of perceived causes.

Our central recommendation in our @MarmotIHE Building Health Equity report is to put equity of health and wellbeing at the heart of housing policy bmj.com/content/388/bm…

Alongside @CIPFA, @Demos and @instituteforgov, we have today published a letter to Chancellor, @RachelReevesMP ahead of the Budget calling for changes to the Government’s fiscal framework to boost spending on prevention. Read more 👇 health.org.uk/news-and-comme…

Excited to be giving the next instalment of the UCL Lunch hour lecture on 10th Oct (online) The lunch hour lectures are a long running UCL tradition (82nd year!!) and I used to love attending them when I was a PhD student. Never thought I'd be asked to give one but here we go!!!

Proud to be part of the coalition for mental health investment find out how you can get involved mentalhealthinvestment.org

Interested in the broader consequences of health interventions? Check out our work (@jobvanexel @werner_brouwer) proposing a definition and framework for their identification in economic evaluations! (rdcu.be/dwKT8) Hopefully, good news on a follow-up soon! @EsCHER_EUR

In a large randomized controlled field trial in 24,702 people in 176 isolated villages in Honduras, published in @ScienceMagazine on May 3, 2024, we showed how social contagion can be used to improve human welfare. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #HNL @eairoldi

@MQmentalhealth Thank you for making this!

Last week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced plans to review the fit note system, focusing on #MentalHealth. His speech continued concerningly inaccurate rhetoric from the Conservative party regarding mental health. Learn the facts here: mqmentalhealth.org/sick-note-cult…

My brilliant colleague and friend @Lathe_J has been speaking about his PhD work on the Researching Happy podcast. Listen one and all! Especially if you’re interested in how economic evaluations value mental health! open.spotify.com/episode/2Uewan…

@MichaelDPlant I went into that article thinking it would discuss pros, cons, and ways forward. Can hardly believe he goes from effective aid is difficult, to how metrics shouldn't be used, to that the SBF / FTX scandal is attributable to the EA mindset, before ending with no real point

It's the end of the tax year, so I was about to give some money to charities treating depression in the global south. Then, I saw Leif Weinar's article and realised that would be silly. Now, I'll go on holiday, bump into someone, and help them instead wired.com/story/deaths-o…

School attendance: Time to clean the air? New research shows the notable impact that using air filters in classrooms can have on reducing student absence. @chrisfabby @UNISONinSchools says it’s time the government acts on this evidence #edutwitter : sec-ed.co.uk/content/blogs/…

No-data psychometric testing with a click! NLP and AI will boost psychometric testing research quality and speed. Based on recent research, I have built a beta version of a shinyapp for conducting psychometric testing on text data only. #Psychometrics #CostSavings #aiapplications

A @CHEYork project, part of our Efficiency Research Programme, has developed a novel method to measure overall performance of mental health care providers, including measures of health, non-health benefits and cost. Article published in @sciencedirect ⬇️ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

1. How do we close Britain's regional divides? After a year of writing with @edballs, Nyasha Weinberg, @ElsdenEsme and @annastansbury, today we publish our thoughts on what needs to be done. A🧵... hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/…

NHS Staff Wellbeing: Read our recently published paper showing that in one CAMHS service 1/3 of staff experienced moderate or high levels of work-related burnout and 1/4 reported wellbeing indicative of mild or clinical depression doi.org/10.3390/health… @Peninsula_ARC

🙏 I am grateful to my collaborators @pravpatalay, @alundhughes30, and @RJ_Silverwood for their patience. Special thanks to @HajBrum, @werner_brouwer, and anonymous reviewers for their invaluable comments. 6/6

🌟 Evaluative frameworks are an important, if underexamined, challenge if we are to improve population mental health. I am always open to chat with anyone who is interested! 5/6

🤔 Ever wondered how economic evaluations measure and attribute value to mental health? Do they do so fairly? I’m excited to announce (to my handful of followers) that my first PhD paper is now available @TheLancetPsych. Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iUfp7tf1d52… 1/6