King's College London

Between 2006 and 2010, over half a million people from cities across the UK signed up to be a part of a project to ‘improve the health of future generations’. These participants became the subjects of UK Biobank (UKB), which is now a well-characterised cohort that any scientist can study for health-related research, at a fraction of the cost of setting up a specific study. The UKB mental health outcomes consortium is formed of representatives from the UK mental health research community with scientists from UKB, and aims maximise the usefulness of mental health outcomes for all UKB researchers.