King's College London and UCL are leading the establishment of a new policy research unit, the NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit, which will bring mental health researchers, clinicians, service users and carers closer together. The main aim of the unit is to provide research to inform policy makers.
Commissioned by the Department of Health through the NIHR's Policy Research Programme following an open competition, the policy research unit will be hosted at UCL, jointly led by UCL and King's, alongside researchers from City, University of London and Middlesex University. It is funded at a cost of £5m for five years.
"Our network of experts includes economists, big data analysts, and service user researchers, to name a few, so we will be well placed to look at mental health policy research from many different angles," Professor Johnson said.
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