Josefien Breedvelt, PhD

Welcome to my website


I'm a Prudence Trust Research Fellow at King's College London, Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 

Together with my group, I study whether and for whom preventative interventions for mental health are effective in youth. 

You can find my KCL website here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/josefien-breedvelt 

Recent grants

I study how to improve the outcomes of current approaches to prevent depression and anxiety in children and young people.

Connect (PI)

I'm leading a team funded by Wellcome for the Mental Health Data Prize. We're developing an RShiny app using Multi-Level-Modelling to explore social connection as an active ingredient for preventing depression and anxiety in adolescence.