A Creative Collaborative for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Policy & Practice * Underpinned by Methodologies and Critiques from Cultural Psychiatry and Health Inequalities Research * Testing and Evolving Eco-Social, Bio-Psycho-Social, and Syndemic Frameworks

CHiMES promotes and protects mental health through investigations of:

Cultural, Social & Geopolitical Influences on Mental Health

Health Inequalities, Multimorbidity & Ethnicity

Health Services & Cultural Competency

Public Mental Health & Population Sciences

Advancing Research Methods for Inclusive co-designed Policy & Practice

Our research adopts the following approaches.

Narrative, Ethnography & Qualitative Research

Experience-Near & Peer Research

Understanding & Reducing Health Inequalities

Epidemiology & Trials

Cultural Adaptation of Complex Interventions & Outcomes

Creative Arts, Socially Engaged Participatory & Digital Research

Service/Systems/Place Interventions and Evaluations

Race Ethics & Equity in Research

World Psychiatric Association, Collaborating Centre, Oxford. UK