SMHR Virtual Session Two: Trends in Mental Health

Society for Mental Health Research

Society for Mental Health Research Virtual Session Two: Trends in Mental Health

The Society for Mental Health Research (SMHR) is a national peak body for psychiatric and mental health research in Australia and New Zealand. This year SMHR will be holding a series of virtual sessions during Mental Health Month to showcase mental health research in Australia.

In this session, you will hear from two prominent Australian researchers regarding recent trends in mental health:Professor Maree Teesson AC “#youngminds trends in mental health, drugs and alcohol”Professor Maree Teesson AC is Director of the Matilda Centre, Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Prevention and Early Intervention in Mental Illness and Substance Use (PREMISE), and an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. Maree is a National Mental Health Commissioner, an Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Fellow, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council. Maree was announced as a Companion of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day 2018 Honours List, awarded a Westpac/Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence (Innovation) in 2015, and awarded an Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Outstanding Mentor of Young Researchers in 2014. Maree has made a major contribution to Australia’s health and medical research effort in the field of mental health and substance use. In particular, she is known nationally and internationally for her research on the comorbidity between mental health and substance use disorders.

Professor John McGrath AM"Update on comorbidity in those with mental disorders"John McGrath is a psychiatrist interested in discovering the causes of serious mental disorders. He is the Director of the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research and conjoint Professor at the Queensland Brain Institute His research aims to generate and evaluate nongenetic risk factors for schizophrenia. He has forged productive cross-disciplinary collaborations linking risk factor epidemiology with developmental neurobiology. For example, John and his colleagues have made discoveries linking prenatal vitamin D and later risk of mental illness in the offspring. In addition, John has supervised major systematic reviews of the epidemiology of schizophrenia. He was awarded a John Cade Fellowship by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, and a Niels Bohr Professorship by the Danish National Research Foundation. He has been awarded the Erik Stromgren Medal and the Lieber Prize for Outstanding Schizophrenia Research.

Participants will be emailed a link to the session before the event.Further details on the event can be found at <a href="https://www.smhr.org.au/smhr-2020-virtual-conference" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.smhr.org.au</a>Please direct any questions about this event to: smhr@smhr.org.au

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