Discover Mental Health - Meet the Editor-in-Chief for Discover Mental Health
"The world is facing a mental health crisis. After centuries of being plagued by stigma, mental health has come to the forefront as a major global priority. Simultaneously, we now have not only the resolve but also the advanced tools of contemporary research to address mental health like never before. In 2018 the World Health Organization stated that:
· ‘Mental health is more than the absence of mental disorders.’
· ‘Mental health is an integral part of health; indeed, there is no health without mental health.’
· ‘Mental health is determined by a range of socioeconomic, biological and environmental factors.’
Discover Mental Health publishes work across the full continuum of mental health, from molecules and the brain to healthcare and societal outcomes, including prevention, assessment and diagnosis, prognosis, interventions and treatments, public health and health services research. Our scope includes the full range of socioeconomic, biological and environmental factors. We aim to rapidly become the largest, broadest, and most globally-relevant venue for the publication of exciting advances in mental health. The trajectory of Discover Mental Health will be guided by our uncompromising commitment to excellence, diversity, and inclusiveness.”
Julio Licinio, MD, PhD, MBA, MS, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Upstate Medical University, is a physician-scientist who is internationally recognized as a mental health research leader, investigating depression, stress-related circuits, genetics, pharmacology, and pharmacogenomics. He has obtained over $25 million in competitive grant funding from sponsors worldwide; his work has resulted in over 375 publications with more than 34,000 citations. He brings experience as Editor in Chief of two other Springer Nature journals, Molecular Psychiatry and Translational Psychiatry. Dr. Licinio has had research and faculty or leadership positions at the National Institute of Mental Health, University of California (UCLA), University of Miami, Australian National University, Flinders University and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute.
Dr. Licinio is engaged with active collaborators or editorially with colleagues across the world; in the last ten years, he has published collaboratively with 190 colleagues from 54 institutions in 19 countries, evidence of the strength and productivity of his unique international partnerships. He has received many national and international awards for his exceptional achievements, and he is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Dr. Licinio has dedicated the entirety of his professional life to promoting the health of underrepresented communities and to developing the academic careers of minority students, postdocs and faculty members. At SUNY Upstate he has worked closely with African-American medical students and other minority students to ensure unprecedented and outstanding postgraduate outcomes.