Mental Health Today Online 2021

Mental health is high on the agenda for policymakers and organisational leads. Today, mental health is now even more of a burning issue that only can be addressed by mental health professionals, policy, and best practice.

MHT continues the momentum made and bring together voices advocating further systemic change.

Are we facing a tsunami of mental illness or are we experiencing collective trauma. Presented by Ewan Hilton and Ann John

Ewan Hilton is the Chief Executive of Platfform. He has worked in the charity sector in Wales since he moved to Cardiff when he was 19. Ewan has always worked for organisations with a social purpose, he became aware of the gross lack of equality and social justice as a child and this has driven what he does now and how he has lived ever since.

Ann holds a personal chair in Public Health and Psychiatry and is based in Population Data Science. She is a clinical epidemiologist with a background in public health and general practice. Her research focuses on suicide and self-harm prevention and the risks, protective factors and life course outcomes of children and young adults’ mental health. She leads the MQ funded Adolescent Mental Health Data Platform and the Suicide Information Database-Cymru. She is a Principal Investigator of the National Centre for Mental Health and the Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health.