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Health Services Researcher

Health Economist

Poushali Ganguli

I am a health services researcher based in King's Health Economics. My PhD research explores the methods of evaluation for school-based mental health interventions. For this I am evaluating two programmes delivered in primary and secondary schools in the UK.

I enjoy slow-motion multitasking and dabble in all things relating to school mental health, interdisciplinary teaching/learning, data visualisation, and global data models.

My other research interests include child and adolescent mental health, mental health economics, global mental health, and epidemiology.

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What I Do

Clinical Trials

I design and conduct economic evaluations alongside clinical trials. This includes drafting proposals, study protocols, statistical analysis plans, report to funders and manuscripts for publishing in peer-reviewed academic journals.

Meta-analysis and Evidence Synthesis

I develop systematic review search strategies and contribute to data extraction, critical appraisal, synthesis and analysis of the results. I also support the Systematic Review Helpdesk for students and staff at King's.

Real World Evidence Studies

I support the development of UK medical research data offerings. This includes validating data, checking data integrity, developing patient profile dashboards, and creating industry-standard clinical code lists.

Teaching

I lead tutorials and seminars on MBBS, BSc and MSc programmes; mark assessments and provide written feedback; support standardisation and moderation activities; supervise undergraduate and postgraduate student research projects.

Current Projects

MYRIAD: Mindfulness training to enhance mental health, wellbeing and social-emotional behavioural functioning in adolescent school pupils
ZIPPY: School-based emotional literacy programme for children with intellectual disabilities
MICE: Psychological treatment for young people with epilepsy and associated mental health problems
Healthy Start, Happy Start: Video-feedback intervention to help parents with their children's behaviour and development
Reflective Fostering: Improving the emotional well-being of foster carers and their looked-after children
RESPOND: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for reducing depressive symptoms in non-responders
TENDAI: Task shifting to treat depression and HIV medication non-adherence in low resource settings

Testimonials

Really appreciated how you brought your own knowledge and experience to the topics discussed, shared things like papers, and graphics and made recommendations about additional resources throughout the module. Overall, thought you did an excellent job!

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Student Feedback

Being open and encouraging when someone is struggling to explain themselves, or needs a prompt during a discussion. I always felt like I could say what was on my mind and you'd always listen and be encouraging or push me to develop the idea further.

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Student Feedback

Being incredibly helpful and very clear and concise - I feel like I learnt so much in these tutorials and that you really knew the topics well and used the hour that we had together very efficiently! You also included all individuals in the tutorial very well, helping us to develop ideas and always had resources to direct us to that would help!

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Student Feedback

You always spend enough time with each student to go over their research, which is very helpful.

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Student Feedback

Facilitating discussions in a way that really encourages participation, but feels casual and interesting. Also, tying the skills we're learning to real-life applicability makes the tutorials more helpful and engaging. Overall, really enjoyed this tutorial and feel like I learned so much in the past few months!

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CV

Education

Present

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

PhD Health Economics

Thesis: Exploring the methods for evaluation of school-based health interventions

2019

King's College London

Associateship of King's College (AKC) Ethics, Theology and Philosophy

Essays: The Holy Bible, selected for justification; The journey is essential to the dream

2014

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

MSc Global Mental Health

Thesis: The impact of comorbid personality disorder on the costs of inpatient psychiatric services in people with severe mental illness - an economic analysis

2010

King's College London

BSc (Hons) Physiology

Thesis: The role of mitochondria in cardiac ischaemic preconditioning

Experience

2015 - Current

King's College London

Research Associate

King's Health Economics, Department of Health Services & Population Research

2021

IQVIA Solutions

Analyst

Real World Evidence, UK Data Offerings

2021

Healthily (YourMD)

Consultant Epidemiologist

Products, Epidemiology Team

2014

World Health Organisation

Data analyst

Ebola Response Team, Department of Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases

General Skills

Quantitative data analysis

85%

Teaching and training

75%

Presentation

80%

Writing

90%

Public engagement

70%

Technical Skills

R

80%

SQL

60%

Stata

90%

Python

20%

HTML / CSS

50%

Microsoft Office

90%

Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator

75%

Interests

Samba percussion. I play in a Brazilian samba band (performances for BBC and iTV, carnival in Brazil). Listen to us here.
Languages. Currently learning Spanish.
Diving. My three favourite spots are (i) Rainbow Reef, Fiji; (ii) Silfra, Iceland; (iii) Shark Reef, Egypt.

Publications

2024

Clinical effectiveness of the psychological therapy Mental Health Intervention for Children with Epilepsy in addition to usual care compared with assessment-enhanced usual care alone: a multi centre, randomised controlled clinical trial in the UK; Bennett et al. in The Lancet [Publisher] [ResearchGate]

2023

A randomised controlled trial to investigate the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for depressed non-responders to Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) high-intensity therapies: study protocol; Barnhofer et al. in Trials [Publisher] [ResearchGate]

2022

Shedding light on service use and costs in adolescents with pain and suicidality; Hinze et al. in eClinicalMedicine [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
Effectiveness of universal school-based mindfulness training compared with normal school provision on teacher mental health and school climate: results of the MYRIAD cluster randomised controlled trial; Kuyken et al. in Evidence-Based Mental Health [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a universal school-based mindfulness training programme compared with normal school provision in reducing risk of mental health problems and promoting well-being in adolescence: results of the MYRIAD cluster randomised controlled trial; Kuyken et al. in Evidence-Based Mental Health [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
The impact of mindfulness training in early adolescence on affective executive control, and on later mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a randomised controlled trial; Dunning et al. in Evidence-Based Mental Health [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
School-based mindfulness training in early adolescence: what works, for whom and how in the MYRIAD trial?; Montero-Marin et al. in Evidence-Based Mental Health [Publisher] [ResearchGate]

2021

The Reflective Fostering Programme – improving the wellbeing of children in care through a group intervention for foster carers: a randomised controlled trial; Midgley et al. in Trials [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
Achieving the sustainable development goals: investing in early career interdisciplinarity; Keynejad et al. in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
A brief parenting intervention for routine healthcare settings to prevent enduring behaviour problems in young children: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial; O'Farrelly et al. in JAMA Paediatrics [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
A video-feedback parenting intervention to prevent enduring behaviour problems in at-risk children aged 12–36 months: the Healthy Start, Happy Start RCT; O'Farrelly et al. in Health Technology Assessment [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
Update to the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a mindfulness training programme in schools compared with normal school provision (MYRIAD): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial; Montero-Marin et al. in Trials [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
The Role of Schools in Early Adolescents' Mental Health: Findings From the MYRIAD Study; Ford et al. in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
M.I.C.E – Mental Health Intervention for Children with Epilepsy: A randomised controlled, multi-centre clinical trial evaluating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of MATCH-ADTC in addition to usual care compared to usual care alone for children and young people with common mental health disorders and epilepsy – Study protocol; Bennett et al. in Trials [Publisher] [ResearchGate]

2020

Frequency of Self-reported Unpleasant Events and Harm in a Mindfulness-Based Program in Two General Population Samples; Baer et al. in Mindfulness [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
Multisystemic therapy compared with management as usual for adolescents at risk of offending: the START II RCT; Fonagy et al. in Health Services and Delivery Research [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
Multisystemic therapy versus management as usual in the treatment of adolescent antisocial behaviour (START): 5-year follow-up of a pragmatic, randomised controlled, superiority trial; Fonagy et al. in The Lancet Psychiatry [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
Training School Teachers to Deliver a Mindfulness Program: Exploring Scalability, Acceptability, Effectiveness, and Cost-effectiveness; Crane et al. in Global Advances in Health and Medicine [Publisher] [ResearchGate]

2019

Can General Practitioners manage mental disorders in primary care? A partially randomised, pragmatic cluster trial; Anjara et al. in PLoS ONE [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
Training teachers in classroom management to improve mental health in primary school children: the STARS cluster RCT; Ford et al. in Public Health Research [Publisher] [ResearchGate]

2018

The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Incredible Years® Teacher Classroom Management programme in primary school children: results of the STARS cluster randomised controlled trial; Ford et al. in Psychological Medicine [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
The clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness of lamotrigine for people with borderline personality disorder: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial; Crawford et al. in The American Journal of Psychiatry [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
Lamotrigine for people with borderline personality disorder: a RCT; Crawford et al. in Health Technology Assessment [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
The cost of child and adolescent mental health services; Skokauskas et al. in The Lancet Psychiatry [Publisher] [ResearchGate]
Multisystemic therapy versus management as usual in the treatment of adolescent antisocial behaviour (START): a pragmatic, randomised controlled, superiority trial; Fonagy et al. in The Lancet Psychiatry [Publisher] [ResearchGate]

2016

Cost and Outcome of Behavioural Activation (COBRA): A Randomised Controlled Trial of Behavioural Activation versus Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression; Richards et al. in Health Technology Assessment [Publisher] [ResearchGate]