Scientific Committee

Our Scientific Committee includes experts from across the breadth of psychiatric epidemiology, social psychiatry and public mental health, and includes diversity by geographical location, gender, lived experience and age. The members of our Scientific Committee are:

Charles Bonsack, CH
Peter Butterworth, AU
Ian Colman, CA
Rory Galloway, UK
James Kirkbride, UK
Roselind Lieb, CH
Kathleen Merikangas, USA
Arnstein Mykletun, NO

Martin Preisig, CH
Steffi Riedel-Heller, DE
Ingmar Skoog, SE
Emma Sonesone, UK
Sharon Stevelink, UK
Robert Stewart, UK
Neeltje Van Haren, NL
Kerstin Von Plessen, CH

Scientific review process

The Scientific Committee will review all abstracts submitted to our 21st Congress according to a set of standardised criteria regarding the appropriateness to the Congress theme, overall scientific impact of the study, clarity of objectives and methodology, originality of content and interpretability of the public summary.

Abstracts will be reviewed and scored by three members of the Scientific Committee. Committee members who encounter any conflict of interest during the review process will be asked to recuse themselves from reviewing those abstracts, being replaced by another Committee member. The Committee will use these scores as the basis for allocation of abstracts to awarding categories (symposia, oral presentations, posters). The highest scoring abstracts submitted by an Early Career Researcher (ECR) will be offered the ECR Keynote Prize.

The decisions of the Scientific Committee will be final. We reserve the right to reject abstracts which lack sufficient scientific quality, raise ethnical concerns or may otherwise be offensive or inappropriate to our delegates.