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Health Studies User Conference 2025

23 Jun 2025 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Online
Conferences
Health

Future  of population health surveys

Please complete this important Office for National Statistics / Department of Health and Social Care questionnaire on the future of population health surveys by midday on 25 July.

This blog from Oyinlola Oyebode presents a personal view of the importance of the Health Survey for England and encourages participation in the questionnaire.

Are you interested in research using health related-data? Want to know what the future holds for population health surveys? Or are you curious how large-scale surveys are used in research, policy-making and monitoring?

Join us for the Health Studies User Conference 2025! View the programme under event resources below.

The conference will take place online on Monday 23 June. Organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with UCL and the National Centre for Social Research, the conference brings data producers and data users together to share updates on the development of key health-related surveys such as the Health Survey for England, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, National Study of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey, and national cohort studies. It will also showcase research that is being carried out using the data.

The conference will feature a presentation on the future of population health surveys, including the Health Survey for England, from the Department of Health and Social Care and the Office for National Statistics. More information on the review of the future of the Health Survey for England can be found on the NHS England Digital Health Survey for England - Health, social care and lifestyles web page. Come along and have your say on this important topic.

We are delighted that our keynote on the use of the Health Survey for England in policy-making and monitoring, will be given by Oyinlola Oyebode, Professor of Public Health and Lead of the Centre for Public Health and Policy, Queen Mary University of London.

The afternoon sessions will showcase papers from researchers who have used the datasets for a wide range of topics including mental health, obesity, ethnicity, health in coastal areas, inequalities, synthetic data and more.

Follow the event on X and Bluesky: #UKDSHealth25

Event resources

Programme (PDF)

Abstracts (PDF)

Recordings (YouTube)

Keynote presentation: Oyinlola Oyebode, Queen Mary University of London

Data updates:

  • Varunie Yaxley, National Centre for Social Research
  • Dhriti Mandalia, National Centre for Social Research
  • Richard Silverwood, University College London
  • Jemima Stockton, University College London
  • Meena Kumari, University of Essex

Parallel session 1a – Mental health:

  • Martin N. Danka, UCL
  • Sally McManus, City St George’s, University of London
  • Golo Henseke, UCL
  • Claire Wicks, University of Essex

Parallel session 1b – Open session:

  • Laura Gray, University of Sheffield
  • Stephen Jivraj, UCL
  • Jessica Kurland, UCL

Parallel session 2a – Mental health:

  • Suzanne Barrett, Northern HSC Trust
  • Christina Palantza, Bristol Medical School
  • Ladan Hashemi, City St George’s, University of London
  • Veena Muraleetharan, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Parallel session 2b – Open session:

  • Anastasia Fadeeva, City St George’s, University of London
  • Andrea Serna-Castano, University of Bath
  • Joseph Lam, UCL
  • Mikaela Bloomberg, UCL

Presentation slides (PDFs)

The use of the Health Survey for England in policy-making and monitoring, Professor Oyinlola Oyebode

Future of population health surveys including an update on the Health Survey for England, Paul Niblett and Tim Vizard

Survey data updates from the National Centre for Social Research, Varunie Yaxley

Introducing the re-designed National Diet and Nutrition Survey, Dhriti Mandalia

An introduction to health data in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies’ national longitudinal cohort studies, Richard Silverwood

Latest updates on the UK Census-based Longitudinal Studies, Jemima Stockton

Understanding Society: Biomarker and health data, Meena Kumari

Health consequences of psychological distress in mid-life: A longitudinal outcome-wide analysis of the 1970 British Cohort Study, Martin N. Danka

A typology of mental health difficulties in young people in England: Latent class analysis of data from the 2017 Mental Health of Children and Young People Survey, Sally McManus

Revisiting the mental health impact of COVID19 on young adults in the UK: Long-term trends, temporary setbacks, and recovery, Golo Henseke

Risk of diagnosed and undiagnosed mental distress in coastal and inland UK adult residents, Claire Wicks

Elevated obesity rates in UK HGV drivers: Insights from a socioeconomically matched population analysis, Ellie Gunner

Long-term trends in central obesity in England: An Age-Period-cohort approach, Laura Gray

Physical and cognitive health in coastal areas: A US-England comparison, Stephen Jivraj

Investigating socioeconomic inequality in the impact of Multiple Long Term Condition (MLTC) clusters on emergency and elective hospital admissions among older adults in England, Jessica Kurland

Rates of common mental health disorders (CMDs) in Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales (1991-2022): Evidence from General Health Questionnaire -12 survey data, Suzanne Barrett

Mental health support gap among intimate partner violence survivors: findings from a nationally representative survey, Christina Palantza

Gender asymmetry in the health impact of intimate partner violence: Population-level evidence, Ladan Hashemi

Understanding associations between sexual identity change and the mental health of lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults in the United Kingdom through longitudinal survey, Veena Muraleetharan

Injuries and use of healthcare services following violence: Differences by violencerelated and individual characteristics, Anastasia Fadeeva

Building a synthetic population to assess the health impacts of local climate change policies in England, Andrea Serna-Castano

Examining the use of ethnicity at different levels of aggregation using Intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (I-MAIHDA), Joseph Lam

Demographic and socioeconomic risk factors for pain progression and recurrence in middle-aged and older adults: A multistate analysis, Mikaela Bloomberg