Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science

e-pub ahead of print date: 15 April 2020

Published date: June 2020

Additional Information: Funding Information: CB reports grants and personal fees from Acadia and Lundbeck; personal fees from Roche, Otsuka, Biogen, Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, AARP, and Exciva; and grants from Synexus, outside the submitted work. EAH reports serving on the board of trustees of the charity MQ: Transforming Mental Health and as chair of the research committee, but receives no remuneration for these roles. EAH receives royalties from books and occasional fees for workshops and invited addresses; receives occasional consultancy fees from the Swedish agency for health technology assessment and assessment of social services; and reports grants from The OAK Foundation, the Lupina Foundation, and the Swedish Research Council. RCO'C is a member of the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence's guideline development group for the management of self-harm; is co-chair of the Academic Advisory Group to the Scottish Government's National Suicide Prevention Leadership Group; receives royalties from books, and occasional fees for workshops and invited addresses; and reports grants from Medical Research Foundation, the Mindstep Foundation, Chief Scientist Office, Medical Research Council, NHS Health Scotland, Scottish Government, and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). KK has received meeting attendance payments from the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and NHS Improvement, and the Royal College of Psychiatry (RCPsych) over the last year for service user representative work, and payment for a training session she facilitated for RCPsych; and received a pass and accommodation for the RCPsych annual conference in 2019. AKP reports financial support from UK taxpayers, the UK's Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, the Diana Award, the John Fell Fund, the Leverhulme Trust, Barnardo's UK, and the Huo Family Foundation in the past five years. As part of science communication and policy outreach activities; and served in an unpaid advisory capacity to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Facebook, Google, and the ParentZone. IT is a Trustee of MQ: Transforming Mental Health and is on the Council for the Medical Research Council of the UK. MH reports grants from Innovative Medicines Intiative, outside the submitted work. MH and SW are funded by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at the Maudsley and a NIHR Senior Investigator Award. NIHR were not involved in any aspect of the publication and had no role in the decision to submit. RCS received funding from the US National Science Foundation, grant SES-2026337. CC reported that Academy of Medical Sciences staff, including herself, and activity costs for this work were partly supported by a core grant the Academy of Medical Sciences receives annually from the Government Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy for policy, communications and public engagement; and reports that her husband is an employee of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Europe and is a trustee of The McPin Foundation. KC was funded by MQ: Transforming Mental Health to carry out the qualitative data analysis of the stakeholder survey. LA is the Mental Health Leadership Fellow for the Economic and Social Research Council. EB is a NIHR Senior Investigator. This Position Paper represents independent research part-funded by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Cambridge University Hospital NHS Trust and the University of Cambridge and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, or the Department of Health and Social Care. RS reports that all research at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health is made possible by the NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. LY is an NIHR Senior Investigator and her research programme is partly supported by NIHR Applied Research Collaboration-West, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit for Behavioural Science and Evaluation, and the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre. The funding for TK's salary came solely from The McPin Foundation. All other authors declare no competing interests. Funding Information: The stakeholder survey was funded by MQ: Transforming Mental Health. Activity costs for this work, including the Ipsos MORI survey, were partly supported by a core grant the Academy of Medical Sciences receives annually from the Government Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy for policy, communications and public engagement. The views expressed are the views of the authors alone and do not necessarily represent the views of their organisations or funding sources. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Elsevier Ltd

Local EPrints ID: 441110

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/441110

DOI: doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30168-1

ISSN: 2215-0366

PURE UUID: c7489813-c2c4-41e3-bb9e-5b0931a8eb99

ORCID for Lucy Yardley: orcid.org/0000-0002-3853-883X

Date deposited: 02 Jun 2020 16:30

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