Professor John Wing CBE
Conceptualised influential mental health instruments including the Present State Examination (PSE), followed by the Schedule for Clinical Assessment of Neuropsychiatry (SCAN)
Professor Heinz Häfner
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Founder of the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim
Professor Tómas Helgason
Led a birth cohort of more than 5,000 probands
Professor Alexander Leighton
Dalhousie University, Canada
Founder of the Stirling County Study, a large population survey to study the population mental health of up to the fourth generation with comparative studies in New York City, Alaska, Nigeria, and Vietnam
Professor Jane Murphy
Harvard University/Dalhousie University
Co-Founder of the Stirling County Study, a large population survey to study the population mental health of up to the fourth generation with comparative studies in New York City, Alaska, Nigeria, and Vietnam
Professor Lee Robins
Washington University in St. Louis, US
- Invented the Diagnostic Interview Survey (DIS), the first diagnostic interview administered by lay interviewers
- Designed computerised algorithms of the DSM-III to calculate prevalence in the Epidemiological Catchment Area Programme by the National Institute of Mental Health, which propelled progress in the field, including the World Mental Health (WMH) Initiative