Harvey is the Kratzmann Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health and Director of the Mental Health Policy and Economics Group at QCMHR. He trained in medicine, psychiatry and health policy in Queensland and at Stanford University and has held senior clinical and administrative positions, including those of Director of Mental Health in the Queensland and Federal governments in Australia and with the World Bank in Washington DC. His interests are in mental health policy, financing and service delivery.

Philip Burgess PhD
Philip is Professor of Mental Health Services at QCMHR. Prior to joining the School he spent eight years at the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria where he was Head of the Policy and Analysis Group. His research interests are in the analysis of routinely collected administrative data and specialised collections such as mental health epidemiological surveys. He is currently responsible for a major research contract with the Australian Government to manage the analysis and reporting of routine outcome measurement and casemix classifications from all publicly funded mental health services in Australia.

Michael Hilton PhD
Michael joined the QCMHR from Harvard Medical School where he worked in sleep and circadian rhythm research with a special interest in pulmonary and cardiovascular biorhythms. He now leads a team investigating the prevalence of mental health problems in the workforce and the clinical and economic benefits of screening and early intervention programs. His team has engaged over 60 large national employers, representing 420,000 employees in a cost benefit analysis of screening and early intervention for depression. 

Geoff Waghorn PhD
Geoff holds an adjunct appointment as Senior Lecturer in the School. He has worked in the field of psychiatric disabilities as a clinical psychologist and rehabilitation consultant and prior to that as a disability officer for a large Commonwealth Department. He now leads a program of research into the functional recovery of people with mental illness and psychiatric disabilities with the aim of reducing the social and economic marginalization associated with mental illness and improving the longer-term outcomes achieved by vocational and other non-treatment services.

Dan Siskind MBBS, MPH, FRANZCP

Dan is a psychiatrist and adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Population Health. He is a medical graduate of the University of Queensland, gained specialist qualifications in psychiatry and completed an MPH at Harvard University. He spent 2 years at the Harvard School of Public Health Program in Health Decision Science before returning to Brisbane in June 2008.  He has a clinical appointment at the the Princess Alexandra Hospital Mobile Intensive Treatment Team and is part of the research group at QCMHR.  His research interests include international mental health cost-effectiveness analyses, comparative research on intensive case management and mental health outcomes research.

Amanda Baxter  B.Appl.Sc.(Hons)

Amanda joined QCMHR in 2006 to work on a cost benefit study of depression in Australian employees. Prior to this she spent 4 years at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research co-ordinating genetic epidemiology studies, with a focus on the genetics of mental disorders. Amanda now manages the mental disorders component of the new Global Burden of Disease Study. Her research interests are in the epidemiology of mental disorders and the measurement of disability caused by mental disorders.