#Schizophrenia Awareness Day! Globally 🌎 Schizophrenia affects 24 million ppl - 1 in 300 ppl. Mental illness is stigmatised & Sz is at the extreme end. Its symptoms are often scary for the indi +not discussed as a result (e.g.,👀+👂things no-one else can) Leaen more abt Sz 👇

In this blog, AnaCristina Bedoya León, @JillPortnoy & Dr Keri Wong comment on the impact that children’s behaviour can have on the #Wellbeing of their #Parents, in turn further affecting children’s development. Full blog: bit.ly/44ORxVg .

If you could speak with decision makers, what would you recommend to them? The last paper of the #Covid19 series has policy recommendations in the aftermath of the #pandemic to address changes in people's #MentalHealth #PhysicalHealth & #relationships: ucl.scienceopen.com/hosted-documen…

FREE blog ‘Don’t blame the children: Supporting families with young children’ by AnaCristina Bedoya León, @JillPortnoy & Dr Keri Wong Learn more about the impact that children’s behaviour can have on the #Wellbeing of their #Parents. bit.ly/44ORxVg

It was lovely to work on this paper with @JillPortnoy and AnaCristina Bedoya León during #covid19 using data from the UCL- Penn Global Covid Study GlobalCovidStudy 💙! UCL Global Engagement

‘We wanted to see whether child behaviour at a certain point in time would affect parental wellbeing later.’ Read the full blog by AnaCristina Bedoya León, @JillPortnoy & Dr Keri Wong for more info. bit.ly/44ORxVg #CAMH #CAMHS #Covid

Happy to have contributed our VaX-PaC Study findings & #covid's impact on #mentalhealth of different populations more generally GlobalCovidStudy 💙 to the Vax-Hub report: ucl.ac.uk/steapp/collabo… Let's see more cross-disciplinary collaborations in preparation for future pandemics!

Excited to see our study findings and lessons learned continue to inform new initiatives, research and partnerships!

‘We found that child externalising behaviour during the 1st wave of the pandemic significantly predicted higher levels of #ParentalStress during the 2nd wave’ Full blog by AnaCristina Bedoya León, @JillPortnoy & Dr Keri Wong available: bit.ly/44ORxVg .

📢Congrats!📢 Congrats to the soon-to-be Dr Tammy Hung #DClinPsy for passing her viva today! Thx amazing examiners Dr Whitney Scott @WhitneyJScott & Dr Alana Loewenberger for making the viva so enjoyable for Tammy. Well done Dr Hung!👏🥳 #ProudSupervisors Vaughan Bell UCL Psych & Lang Sci

🌟Congrats!🌟 We're super pleased that Dr Tammy Hung DClinPsy trainee has passed her viva today! Her #mixedmethod study on the #impact of #Covid19 on #physical activity & #mentalhealth to inform #socialprescirbing using the GlobalCovidStudy 💙! Dr Keri Wong is a proud supervisor!

Now that the GOV is again giving out free rapid tests (covidtests.gov) If you do turn Positive this fall/winter, your rapid test may tell you more about your status (at the time of testing) than you think! How much time X how dark it gets Here's how I think about it:

Find out more about how #covid19 has impacted individual's #mentalhealth. Have a question to explore? DM us to access the data! UCL Global Engagement

Check out our blog on #covid19's impact on #children and #parents #mentalhealth. Original paper in UCL Open: Environment! UCL Global Engagement

Great reviews blogs of our papers!

..and another paper from the GlobalCovidStudy 💙 !

🌟 New Preprint! 🌟 One before the holidays: 'The impact of #COVID19 on #physical activity and #mentalhealth: A #mixedmethods approach' by Dr Tammy Hung & co-supervised with Vaughan Bell! Preprint 👉 osf.io/preprints/osf/… Spin-off data GlobalCovidStudy 💙 UCL Global Engagement

Got to explore another part of London today - thanks Prof Jennifer Lau for inviting me to share our work TheWongLab Empower Islington CopeWell Study with the Youth Resilience Unit unit!

Grateful for the opportunity to share my research a few with Prof. Lau + Youth Resilience Unit🙏 Check out my research journey👇, my GlobalCovidStudy 💙 shaped by 🇭🇰SARS exp +more recent #copro work Empower Islington CopeWell Study Humanizing Hospitals Dr. Lusi Morhayim! UCL Innovation & Enterprise Research England

📢New! 📢 Congrats to Dr Tammy Hung 23' (UCL Psych & Lang Sci) for having her @UCL #DClinPsy paper accepted! 👏🥳 👉osf.io/preprints/osf/… The impact of #COVID19 on #physicalactivity & #mentalhealth: A #mixed-methods approach" #ProudSupervisors Vaughan Bell Dr Keri Wong GlobalCovidStudy 💙