Harvey Whiteford

Harvey Whiteford has been trained in medicine, psychiatry and health policy in Queensland, Australia and at Stanford University in the USA. He is the Kratzmann Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health at the University of Queensland.

Harvey Whiteford is a previous Director of Mental Health for the Queensland government and former Mental Health Director for the Australian Federal government.

Over a ten year period Harvey Whiteford worked on the design and roll out of Australia’s Mental Health Strategy. He was Chairman of the Working Group which oversaw this program.

In 1999 Harvey Whiteford was appointed as the first in house psychiatrist to the World Bank in Washington DC. The task was to develop the World Bank’s "capacity to respond to the rising global burden of neuropsychiatric disorders".

"Professor Whiteford leads the Policy and Economics Group at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research which has a research program in mental health policy analysis; structural reform of mental health services in the areas of organization and financing; the impact of mental disorder on role functioning and productivity; vocational recovery and measures of service outcome, quality and effectiveness."

Harvey Whiteford is a consultant to the World Bank, the World Health Organisation and the Australian Federal government.

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