Mental ill health is common and disabling for young people, particularly when they live with intersectional disprivilege. Navigating healthcare services can be difficult, costly and confusing.   

The JAMMed project analyses the healthcare journeys of diverse young people using a prospective longitudinal qualitative method. Co-design has helped test our assumptions, improving recruitment, interview methods and analysis. We have gained insight into the lives of people rarely included in existing evidence to better understand and challenge systemic bias inherent in health systems.