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Kelly Anderson, PhD

Assistant Professor, Departments of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Psychiatry, Western University

Looking at Early Psychosis Intervention Services Through a Population Lens

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Abstract:

This seminar will present preliminary findings from a project aimed at examining the use of health services for young people with first-episode psychosis in Ontario. This project used population-based health administrative data to assess the follow-up that people receive after their first episode of psychosis, as well as a primary data linkage with an early psychosis intervention program to estimate the number of people who are not accessing these specialized treatment programs.

Bio:

Dr. Kelly Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Western University, with a cross-appointment in the Department of Psychiatry. She is also a Fellow at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), as well as an Associate Scientist at the Children鈥檚 Health Research Institute and the Lawson Research Institute.聽 She received her PhD in Epidemiology from UU直播 in 2012 and also completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Dr. Anderson鈥檚 research program lies at the intersection of population health and health services research, specifically in the area of mental health. She is interested in the risk, course, and outcome of mental illness for different population groups, as well as in the social determinants of health service access and utilization. She has a particular interest in the mental health of adolescents and young adults, and her research to date has focused on first-episode psychosis and early intervention services.聽 Dr. Anderson is a recent recipient of a New Investigator Fellowship from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation to use a novel application of health administrative data to examine the impact of early psychosis intervention services at the population level.