Dr. Joseph Hayes

Biography

Professor Hayes studied medicine at the University of Bristol and trained in psychiatry in Oxford and North London. He holds an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD in Psychiatric Epidemiology from University College London. He is currently a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and an Honorary Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry at Camden Islington NHS Foundation Trust. Professor Hayes is also an Honorary Public Health Consultant for Office Health Improvement Disparities. He serves on the editorial board of the British Journal of Psychiatry and the International Journal of Bipolar Disorders, and is a co-founder of juli Health. Professor Hayes is a founding member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Sustainability Committee and participates in the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Choosing Wisely Committee. He has received numerous research awards from the Royal College of Psychiatrists and has been invited to speak internationally. His work includes consultation for television programmes on mental health, and he is part of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Mental Health. His research focuses on utilizing large electronic health record datasets to understand the aetiology, treatment, and prognosis of severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, collaborating with various prestigious institutions to develop predictive and causal inference machine learning models to improve mental health outcomes.

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