Sharon Stevelink

Background

About Sharon Stevelink

I am a Reader in Epidemiology and part of the Department of Psychological Medicine and King’s Centre for Military Health Research, King’s College London. I am driving a research agenda exploring occupational mental health. I am especially interested in how working in high risk occupations, such as the military, police force, fire brigade and ambulance services, impacts on the mental health of people working in these jobs, what can be done to foster resilience and how help-seeking for mental health problems can be encouraged. My research findings have informed policy and service delivery concerning the mental health provision for serving and ex-serving military personnel.Further, I am the Principal Investigator of the Occupation and PsychiaTrIc Morbidity consortiUM (OPTIMUM). This consortium drives data linkages and uses routinely collected mental health and other data to advance our understanding about the relationships of welfare and occupational status with mental disorders, treatment, well-being and recovery.