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Co-designing school-based mental health interventions for young people and their families: learning from global evidence

Datum
12. Okto­ber 2026 

NHS Ayr­shire & Arran Social Sci­ences & Human­i­ties Research Webinar


„Co-design­ing school-based men­tal health inter­ven­tions for young peo­ple and their fam­i­lies: learn­ing from glob­al evidence”

Guest speak­er: Dr Fiona Samuels, Wolf­son Insti­tute of Pop­u­la­tion Health, Queen Mary Uni­ver­si­ty of London

Date: Mon­day 12 Octo­ber 2026
Time: 1.00 pm
For­mat: Online

Reg­is­ter here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7493d1b5-9311–4c10-b47e-bc08ccd2d9b3@10efe0bd-a030-4bca-809c-b5e6745e499a

Evi­dence sug­gests that school-based men­tal health pro­grammes can be effec­tive in pro­mot­ing pos­i­tive men­tal health and well­be­ing among young peo­ple. This webi­nar will explore how co-designed and co-cre­at­ed approach­es, involv­ing young peo­ple, fam­i­lies and com­mu­ni­ties, can improve the rel­e­vance, uptake, effec­tive­ness and sus­tain­abil­i­ty of interventions.

Draw­ing on research in Tan­za­nia, Viet­nam, Cam­bo­dia and the UK, Fiona will share key find­ings, lessons learned and future oppor­tu­ni­ties to sup­port youth men­tal health.

About our guest speak­er: Dr Fiona Samuels is Read­er in Glob­al Health and Inequal­i­ties and Co-Lead of the Glob­al Pub­lic Health Unit at the Wolf­son Insti­tute of Pop­u­la­tion Health, Queen Mary Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don. An anthro­pol­o­gist with more than two decades of expe­ri­ence work­ing at the research-pol­i­cy inter­face, Fiona’s work focus­es on men­tal health and psy­choso­cial well­be­ing, gen­der-based vio­lence, mater­nal and repro­duc­tive health, and health sys­tems strength­en­ing. She is par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in co-design, par­tic­i­pa­to­ry approach­es and the social deter­mi­nants of health and wellbeing.

The Social Sci­ences & Human­i­ties Webi­nar Series pro­vides an oppor­tu­ni­ty for staff, stu­dents and part­ners to hear from lead­ing researchers work­ing across a broad range of dis­ci­plines and top­ics rel­e­vant to health, well­be­ing and care.