Scientific Committee | Congress on Mental Health: Meeting the needs of the 21st Century

WPA Secretary General Co-Chairman of the Scientific Committee (Russia)

Vice-President of the Union for Mental Health/Education & Research Co-Chairman of the Scientific Committee (Russia)

Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health, Global Health and Population, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Past Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse of the WHO (USA)

Olga E. Pazyna

Vice-President of the Union for Mental Health/ International Relations (Russia)

Judy Kuriansky

Chair of the Psychology Coalition of NGOs and the main representative of the World Council of Psychotherapy and the International Association of Applied Psychology at the United Nations, Professor of the Columbia University Teachers College (USA)

Gordana Milavić

Chair of the Association for Child, and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH), President Elect and member of the Psychiatry Council of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK)

Roy Abraham Kallivayalil

Vice-Principal, Professor and Head at Department of Psychiatry at Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre (Tiruvalla, Kerala) (India)

Sam Tyano

Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Tel Aviv University School of Medicine, Honorary President of the Israeli Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Association, Chairman of the WPA Standing Committee on Ethics (Israel)

Vincenzo Di Nicola

Professor of Psychiatry, University of Montreal, President-Elect, WASP (Canada)

Igor M. Matskevich

Doctor of Law, Professor and Head of Criminology and Executive Law Chair at the Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Professor of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Honored Scientist of Russia, President of the Union of Criminalists and Criminologists, President of the International Foundation for Legal Initiatives (Russia)

Alexander A. Mokhov

Doctor of Law, Professor and Head of Medical Law Chair of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (Russia)

Christine Roland-Lévy

President of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), Professor of the University of Reims Champagne Ardenne (France)

Marc Hermans

MD, Founding member of the Belgian Professional Union for Psychiatrists and the Flemish Psychiatric Association (Belgium)

Juan E. Mezzich

Secretary General of the International College of Person-Centered Medicine, Tenured Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, Hipolito Unanue Chair of Person Centered Medicine at San Marcos University School of Medicine, and Editor of the International Journal of Person Centered Medicine (USA and Peru)

Sabine Bährer-Kohler

Invited Professor Mental Health & Social Determinants Spain, President of the Association for Mental Health- Global Mental Health Switzerland, Managing Director for Dr. Bährer-Kohler & Partners Switzerland, Director at Large World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) 2021-2023 (Switzerland)

Raymond C. K. Chan

Professor of the Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)