Scientific Advisory Board

The list of the Scientific Advisory Board members is in progress.

Lars Hansson
Professor at Mental Health Services Research
Lund University, Sweden

Lene Falgaard Eplov
Research senior consultant, PhD
Head of program for research in rehabilitation, recovery & shared care
Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark

Nicolas Rüsch, MD
Professor of Public Mental Health
Department of Psychiatry II, University of Ulm and BKH Günzburg

Philip Yanos, Professor
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

Merete Nordentoft
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Copenhagen

Graham Thornicroft
Chair of World Psychiatric Association's Stigma Section
Professor of Community Psychiatry, King's College London

Norman Sartorius
Co-chair of World Psychiatric Association's Stigma Section
Professor, MD, PhD, FRCpsych
President of The Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes 

Heather Stuart
Secretary of World Psychiatric Association's Stigma Section
PhD, Professor
Mental Health and Anti-stigma Research Chair

Kua Ee Hoek
Professor at The National University of Singapore

Ekin Sönmez, MD
Psychiatry Trainee, Marmara University, School of Medicine, Turkey
President of the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees 2016-17

David Roe
Professor at the Department of Community Mental Health
Director of the Center for Mental Health Research, Training, Services and Policy
University of Haifa, Israel

Pallab Maulik
Deputy Director and Head of Research & Development
George Institute for Global Health India

Charlene Sunkel
Programme Manager: Advocacy & Development
South African Federation for Mental Health

Jie Li
Vice-President of Guangzhou Huiai Hospital
President of Guangzhou Society of Psychiatry
Professor at Guangzhou Medical University, China

Jibril Abdulmalik
Senior Lecturer/Psychiatrist
College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Claire Henderson
MRCPsych PhD, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London

Dr. Thara Rangaswamy
Director of Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF), Chennai, India

Tsuyoshi Akiyama
Vice President, Japanese Society for the Elimination of Barriers for Mental Health

Mitsumoto Sato
President, The Japanese Society for the Elimination of Barriers for Mental Health
Honorary Professor, Tohoku University

Anita Riecher-Rössler, MD PhD
Professor of Psychiatry & Head of Center for Gender Research and Early Detection
University of Basel Psychiatric Hospital, Switzerland

Lawrence Yang
Associate Professor at Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
New York University, College of Public Health &
Adjunct Associate Professor at Department of Epidemiology
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health

Antonio Lasalvia, MD, PhD
Consultant psychiatrist, Department of Mental Health
NHS Local Health Authority of Verona, Italy

Jean-Luc Roelandt
Psychiatrist, M.D.
Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for research and training in Mental Health (WHOCC), Lille France
Director of the Health care consortium for research and training in Mental Health and team member Inserm - Eceve - UMR 1123