The team

Professor of Psychological Medicine and Director of the Centre for Women’s Mental Health at the University of Manchester, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist with Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust. An NIHR Senior Investigator, European Research Council Fellow and elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Professor at the University of Oxford, previously Global Therapeutic Head for Neuroscience at Janssen R&D and Global Head, Science for Minds, at Johnson & Johnson. Formerly Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Pathophysiology at the US National Institutes of Health and Director of the NIH Mood and Anxiety Disorders Programme.

Over 20 years of leadership in data science, digital health and pharmaceutical R&D, including 13 years at Johnson & Johnson as Vice President of Data Sciences and Digital Health. Earlier senior roles include Head of Discovery Informatics at Eli Lilly and Director of Computational Sciences at Celera Genomics, where his team helped sequence the human genome.

Professor of Neuroimaging & Psychopharmacology and Director of the Centre for Innovative Therapeutics at King’s College London. Leads the Experimental Medicine & Novel Therapeutics theme at the NIHR-Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre.

Biostatistician and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Women’s Mental Health, University of Manchester, and a lead on the programme’s data observatory work.

NIHR Research Professor and Professor of Medical Statistics and Trials Methodology at the IoPPN. Academic Director of King’s Clinical Trials Unit and Theme Lead for Trials, Genomics and Prediction in the NIHR Maudsley BRC.

Professor of Medical Statistics at the University of Liverpool, bringing trials methodology and core outcome set expertise to the programme’s trial design work.

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Academic Lead for Patient and Public Involvement in the Oxford Health BRC and the Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration.

Director of Community Involvement and Workforce Innovation, with a background in public health medicine and a decade in mental health policy at the Department of Health.

Director of Percolating Health, working with the programme on how digital mental health tools reach the people who need them.

Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Digital Health at the University of Manchester and Chief Operating Officer at CareLoop Health, working on digital adoption pathways for the NHS.

Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry, Health Data Science at Swansea University, leading the programme’s work on secure, centralised and scalable mental health data.

Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Clinical Informatics at the IoPPN, and Clinical and Population Informatics Lead at the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre.

Professor of Psychiatric Genetics at King’s College London, leading the severe depression cohort built on the GLAD Study with Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Edinburgh.

Leads the psychosis cohort with the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, and multi-omic data generation across the programme’s cohorts.

Builds the capabilities database behind the programme’s offer to industry.

First point of contact for companies and partners looking to work with the Mental Health Goals Programme.

Methodology project coordinator for the trials hub, working across the programme’s trial design and delivery partners.

Brings over a decade of lived experience as a carer, professional lived experience roles across Healthwatch Surrey and Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, and a previous decade as a research neuroscientist in the pharmaceutical industry.