Big data and mental health by Dr Johnny Downs

About the speaker

The research of Dr Johnny Downs focuses on combining epidemiological approaches with health informatics to improve outcomes for childhood neurodevelopmental and mental health disorders. His interests lie within several main areas – implementation of patient portals to enhance patient care, natural language processing to refine the data extracted from free-text electronic records, and data-linkages which integrate non-health data into clinical record analyses.

About the talk

Dr Downs will talk about the uses of big data in mental health research.