Graham Thornicroft

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Graham Thornicroft

Sir Graham Thornicroft FRCPsych FMedSci is a British psychiatrist, researcher and Professor of Community Psychiatry at the Centre for Global Mental Health [1] and Centre for Implementation Science [2] at King's College London. [3] He also a Consultant Psychiatrist working at a community mental health team at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He is best known for his work on community mental health services, stigma and discrimination, and global mental health. He has published over 30 books, and has written over 670 peer-reviewed scientific papers. [4] Graham was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to mental health. [5]

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Education and early life

Graham gained a first class honours degree in Social and Political Sciences from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge. After a year working as a residential social worker in Labrador, Canada, he studied Medicine at Guy’s Hospital, and then trained in psychiatry at both the Maudsley and Johns Hopkins Hospitals. [6] He completed an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and went on to complete his PhD at the University of London, focusing on the positive outcomes of discharging long-term psychiatric in-patients to community care.

In November 2019, Graham was interviewed on the BBC World Service series, The Inquiry, in a radio documentary called What can we do about the world's mental health problems? He disclosed that he had been inspired to become a psychiatrist by a period in his childhood when his mother, who experienced a severe episode of depression, had attempted to take her own life and the lives of her children. Graham's mother was treated for several months, made a full recovery and then returned to work as a nurse. [7]

Career

Graham is a consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He was the founding Head of the Health Services and Population Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London, Founding Director of King's Improvement Science. He also established the Centre for Implementation Science at KCL. Graham is a founding member of the Movement for Global Mental Health, a network of 200 institutions and over 10,000 individuals involved in improving services for people living with mental health conditions and psycho-social disabilities. [8] He is the director of the National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) in South London. [9]

Mental health policy

Graham Chaired the External Reference Group to create the National Service Framework for Mental Health in England. [10] Published in 1999, this was a 10-year national mental health plan that transformed the provision of mental health care across England. [11]

Stigma and discrimination research

In 2006, Graham published Shunned: Discrimination against People with Mental Illness [12] and this won the British Medical Association Award for Best Mental Health Book of the Year. [13] With Professor Norman Sartorius, he established the INDIGO Network, [14] a research collaboration of colleagues in over 40 countries worldwide who work to reduce mental health related stigma and discrimination. [15] [16] He has published over 140 scientific papers on stigma and discrimination, including papers on the evaluation of Time to Change, the national programme to reduce stigma and discrimination in England. [17] With Charlene Sunkel, the Founder and CEO of the Global Mental Health Peer Network, he Co-Chaired The 2022 Lancet Commission on Ending Stigma and Discrimination in Mental Health.

Global mental health

Graham Chaired the Guideline Development Group for the World Health Organisation Mental Health Global Action Plan (mhGAP) Implementation Guide for its 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions in 2010, 2015 and 2023. These guidelines have been implemented in over 100 countries. [18] In 2014, Graham and Dr. Nicole Votruba coordinated the FundaMentalSDG initiative [19] [20] which contributed to the adoption of mental health related targets and indicators within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. [21]

Graham is a member of an international group which produced the 2007 Lancet Global Mental Health series aiming to 'highlight the gaps in mental-health services worldwide, and to formulate a clear call to action'. [22] [23] In 2018, he was one of the four lead editors of The Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development. [24] Graham was a Principal Investigator of the Community Psycho Social Intervention (COPSI) study in India, a Welcome Trust randomized controlled trial of community mental health teams in Chennai, Goa and Maharashtra. [25] He has also led the Emerald Programme (Emerging Mental Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries), funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. [26] In 2017, the project results were presented in the House of Commons in London. [27]

Awards

Graham has received more than 170 research funding awards, to a total value of over £130 million. [28] In 2009, Graham and his colleagues at the Health Services and Population Research Department at the IoPPN at KCL received the Queen’s Award Prize for Further and Higher Education for work of outstanding excellence. [29] With Professor Claire Henderson he has co-led the evaluation of the Time to Change anti-stigma programme in England, and in 2020 this was recognised by Royal Society of Public Health as one of the Top 20 Public Health Achievements of the 21st century. In 2022 Graham received the Rema Lapouse Award from the Mental Health, Epidemiology, and Statistics Sections of the American Public Health Association in recognition of 'significant contributions to the scientific understanding of the epidemiology, and control of mental disorders.'

Books

Graham has written or co-authored 31 books:

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