Research Group: ChARM
Biography
Tamsin Ford is a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the effectiveness of interventions and the efficiency of services in relation to the mental health of children and young people, with a particular focus on the interface between education and health systems. She completed her PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London and she set up the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Research Group at Exeter Medical School in 2007. She moved to Cambridge in October 2019 where she is also an honorary consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. She is part of the Research Advisory Group of Place2Be and on the Board of the Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
Publications
Ford, T., Newlove-Delgado, T., Sabu, A. K., & Russell, A. (2024) 'Neither seen nor heard: the evidence gap on the effect of covid-19 on mental health in children.' BMJ, 387, e078339. doi:10.1136/bmj-2023-078339
McGorry, P. D., Mei, C., Dalal, N., Alvarez-Jimenez, M., Blakemore, S. -J., Browne, V., . . . Killackey, E. (2024) 'The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health.' Lancet Psychiatry, 11(9), 731-774. doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(24)00163-9
Finning, K., Haeffner, A., Patel, S., Longdon, B., Hayes, R., Ukoumunne, O. C., & Ford, T. (2024) 'Is neighbourhood deprivation in primary school-aged children associated with their mental health and does this association change over 30 months?' Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 33(9), 3111-3121. doi:10.1007/s00787-024-02385-y
Astle, D. E., Moore, A., Marryat, L., Viding, E., Mansfield, K. L., Fazel, M., . . . Ford, T. J. (2023) 'We need timely access to mental health data: implications of the Goldacre review.' Lancet Psychiatry, 10(4), 242-244. doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(23)00030-5
O'Logbon, J., Newlove-Delgado, T., McManus, S., Mathews, F., Hill, S., Sadler, K., & Ford, T. (2022) 'How does the increase in eating difficulties according to the Development and Well-Being Assessment screening items relate to the population prevalence of eating disorders? An analysis of the 2017 Mental Health in Children and Young People survey.' Int J Eat Disord, 55(12), 1777-1787. doi:10.1002/eat.23833