Jane is Professor of Evidence Based Intervention and Policy Evaluation at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford. Her main research interest is the role of early parenting in the aetiology of mental health problems, and the evaluation of interventions aimed at improving parenting practices during pregnancy and the postnatal period. She also undertakes research to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions aimed at preventing child abuse. She is currently President of AIMH UK, Affiliate Council Representative of the Executive Board of WAIMH, an Associate Editor for the Infant Mental Health Journal, and was a member of PreVAiL (Preventing Violence Across the Lifespan).

Koray Başar is associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry in Hacettepe University, Ankara, where he completed his studies in medicine and psychiatry. He is currently the Secretary General of the Psychiatric Association of Turkey, executive committee member of the Turkish Association of Nervous and Mental Health. His clinic and research interests include diversity in sex development, gender identity and sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS, the mental health effects of stigma and discrimination on individuals and families, in addition to impulsivity and anhedonia in depression, and electroconvulsive treatments. He works as a sexual therapist, and he is one of the trainers in sexual therapy in Sexual Education, Treatment, and Research Association (CETAD) in Turkey. He serves as associate editor for the Turkish Journal of Psychiatry. He is an actively contributing member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.

Michael Bauer, MD, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, in Germany, where he is also Physician-in-Chief at the Psychiatric Hospital and Outpatient Clinics. Professor Bauer received his medical degree from Freie Universität Berlin School of Medicine and a PhD in molecular biology and biochemistry from Freie Universität Berlin. He completed a residency in psychiatry and neurology at Benjamin Franklin Medical Center in Berlin, and also completed a postdoctoral lecture qualification (venia legendi) in psychiatry at Freie Universität Berlin. Professor Bauer was Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at the Neuropsychiatric Research Institute and Hospital at the University of California Los Angeles (1998–2002). He is President of the International Group for the Study of Lithium-Treated Patients (IGSLi) and he chairs the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry’s Task Force on Treatment Guidelines for Unipolar Depressive Disorders. Professor Bauer is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Bipolar Disorder and Pharmacopsychiatry and Editor of Der Nervenarzt. He has received several awards including the Anna Monika Prize in 2017 and the AGNP Prize for Research in Psychopharmacology, also in 2017. Professor Bauer’s research interests include prediction, response and outcome in psychopharmacology; neurobiology of mood disorders (functional neuroimaging, neuroendocrinology and genetics); treatment strategies and tactics in mood disorders; and the development of new technologies for longitudinal assessments in psychiatry. He has authored and coauthored more than 500 articles published in peer-reviewed journals or books, mostly in the field of mood disorders.