Expert Groups

Expert Groups have been formed in a way that is loosely coincident with condition-specific or risk-factor-specific interests. Each group will have an Expert Group Leader or Co-Leaders, Core Member, Advisory Member and Corresponding Members. Each Expert Group will agree upon and submit its own estimates and epidemiological reviews to the Core Team.



Mental Disorders and Illicit Drug Use Expert Group


The Mental Disorders and Illicit Drug Use Expert Group falls under Cluster C: Injuries and Mental Health. The Cluster leader (core member) is Theo Vos. The Mental Disorders and Illicit Drug Use Expert Group co-leaders are Louisa Degenhardt and Harvey Whiteford.

Members


Professor Louisa Degenhardt
Burnet Institute, Melbourne
formerly at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Professor Harvey Whiteford
Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane

Professor John McGrath
University of Queensland, Brisbane

Professor Wayne Hall
University of Queensland, Brisbane

Dr Guilherme Polanczyk
Institute of Psychiatry, London

Dr Shekhar Saxena
World Health Organisation, Geneva

Professor Oye Gureje
Department of Psychiatry, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

Dr Ronald Kessler
Harvard University, Boston

Dr Cille Kennedy
DHHS/ASPE, Washington DC

Dr Maria Elena Medina-Mora
National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City

Professor Martin Prince
Institute of Psychiatry, London



Corresponding Members


Dr Peter Allebeck
Department of Health Sciences, Section for social medicine

Professor Jim Anthony
Michigan State Univeristy

Dr Kristen Archer
John Hopkins Medicine

Dr Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos
Universitario de Ia Princesa

Professor Santosh Chaturvedi
National Insitute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore, India

Dr Nicolas Clark
World Health Organisation

Dr Wilson Compton
National Insitute on Drug Abuse

Dr Benjamine Cowie
WHO Regional Reference Laboratory for Hepatitis B
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory
Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, University of Melbourne

Dr Don Des Jarlais
Center for Drug Use and HIV Research Research Fellow, NDRI
Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Paul Griffiths
EMCDDA

Dr Holly Hagan
College of Nursing, New York University

Dr Hugh Hendrie
Inidan University for Ageing Research

Professor Stephen Lawrie
University of Edinbrugh

Professor Paulo Lotufo
School of Medicine, University of Sao

Dr Michael Lynskey
Washington Univeristy School of Medicine

Dr Bradley Mathers
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales

Dr Tahereh Moradi
Researcher

Matthew Nice
UNODC

Thomas Pietschmann
UNODC

Dr Vladimir Poznyak
World Health Organisation

Dr Sorava Seedat
University of Stellenbosch

Dr Hans Wijbrand Hoek
Psychiatric Residency and Research, Parnassia The Hague

Dr Paul Yip
The University of Hong Kong

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