036 - Mental health literacy and priorities for prevention

Join the JOURNAL CLUB www.researchinghappy.com Prof Tony Jorm is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne and NHMRC Leadership Fellow. His research focuses on building the community’s capacity for prevention and early intervention with mental disorders. Prof Jorm is the author of 37 books or monographs, over 700 journal articles and over 40 chapters in edited volumes. He has been awarded a Doctor of Science for his research and elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He is Editor-in-Chief of Mental Health & Prevention. Previous positions he has held include NHMRC Australia Fellow, Chair of the Research Committee of Australian Rotary Health, President of the Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research and Editor-in-Chief of the Australasian Journal on Ageing. He has been listed in ISI HighlyCited.com as one of the most cited researchers in Psychology/Psychiatry and received a Thomson Scientific Citation Award.