The Social Health Hub is a five-year research programme exploring how social determinants, the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, influence the course of Severe Mental Illness (SMI), and shape how people respond to their conditions over time. 

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The Social Health Hub is one of six new research hubs which form the UKRI Mental Health Platform. The platform has been set up to accelerate collaboration between researchers, people with lived experience of SMI and external collaborators, with the aim of developing more effective diagnosis, intervention and care.

 

The Social Health Hub is part of the UKRI Mental Health Platform and is led by Professor Jennifer Lau at Queen Mary University of London and brings together a network of researchers from Liverpool University, University of Warwick, Newcastle University, Kings College London, City St Georges, Brunel, University of Plymouth. We work hand in hand with our Lived Experience Advisory Board and the McPin Foundation.