Helen Herrman is Professor of Psychiatry at Orygen and the Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, and Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre in Mental Health, Melbourne, Australia. She is past president of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA – 2017-2020), the International Association of Women’s Mental Health and the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists. She is appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia. Her research and development interests include promoting mental health, community mental health care, and women’s mental health. Previously she was Professor and Director of Psychiatry in St. Vincent’s Health Melbourne, and for a year acted as regional adviser in mental health for the WHO’s Western Pacific Region. She led the WPA’s action plan 2017-2020, concerned with supporting the contribution of psychiatrists to global mental health