OR

Browse By

Professor Harvey Whiteford

Professor of Population Mental Hlth

School of Public Health
Faculty of Medicine
h.whiteford@sph.uq.edu.au
+61 7 3271 8684

Overview

Professor Whiteford is Director of the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research. His research interests are in psychiatric epidemiology and burden of disease measurement, mental health policy and service reform.

Professor Whiteford trained in medicine, psychiatry and health policy at the University of Queensland, Stanford University and the Australian National University. He has held senior clinical and administrative positions, including those of Director of Mental Health in the Queensland and Federal governments in Australia. He worked for ten years on the design and implementation of Australia’s Mental Health Strategy and was Chairman of the Working Group which oversaw this initiative. He was appointed to the first mental health position in the World Bank in Washington DC with the task of developing the Bank’s capacity to respond to the rising global burden of mental, neurological, and substance use disorders. He has worked as a consultant to national governments, the Commonwealth and State governments in Australia, the World Bank, and the World Health Organisation.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Health Sciences/Bachelor of Medicine/B, The University of Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Australian National University
  • Fellow, Australian Faculty of Public Health Medic
  • Fellow, Royal Australian & New Zealand College of
  • D. Univ, Queensland University of Technology
  • Master of Public Health, The University of Queensland
  • MBBS, The University of Queensland

Publications

View all Publications

Grants

View all Grants

Supervision

View all Supervision

Publications

Book Chapter

  • Cross-walking with fixed effects: anxiety disorders

    Baxter, Amanda, Blore, Jed, Flaxman, Abraham D., Vos, Theo and Whiteford, Harvey (2015). Cross-walking with fixed effects: anxiety disorders. An integrative metaregression framework for descriptive epidemiology. (pp. 141-143) edited by Abraham D. Flaxman, Theo Vos and Christopher J. L. Murray. Seattle, WA, United States: University of Washington Press.

  • Excess mortality from mental, neurological and substance use disorders in the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Charlson, Fiona J., Baxter, Amanda J., Dua, Tarun, Degenhardt, Louisa, Whiteford, Harvey A. and Vos, Theo (2015). Excess mortality from mental, neurological and substance use disorders in the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Disease control priorities: Volume 4, Mental, neurological, and substance use disorders. (pp. 41-65) edited by Vikram Patel, Dan Chisholm, Tarun Dua, Ramanan Laxminarayan and Maria Elena Medina-Mora. Washington, DC, United States: The World Bank.

  • Mental health policy development and implementation

    Lund, Crick, de Almeida, Jose Miguel Caldas, Whiteford, Harvey and Mahoney, John (2014). Mental health policy development and implementation. Global mental health: principles and practice. (pp. 279-298) edited by Vikram Patel, Harry Minas, Alex Cohen and Martin J Prince. New York, United States: Oxford University Press.

  • The cost-effectiveness of treatments for anxiety disorders

    Mihalapoulos, Catherine, Baxter, Amanda and Whiteford, Harvey (2014). The cost-effectiveness of treatments for anxiety disorders. The Wiley handbook of anxiety disorders. (pp. 1256-1267) edited by Paul Emmelkamp and Thomas Ehring. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118775349.ch59

  • The burdens of mental disorders in the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 and the World Mental Health surveys: similarities, differences, and implications for mental health research

    Whiteford, Harvey A. and Ferrari, Alize J. (2013). The burdens of mental disorders in the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 and the World Mental Health surveys: similarities, differences, and implications for mental health research. The burdens of mental disorders: global perspectives from the WHO world mental health surveys. (pp. 221-229) edited by Jordi Alonso, Barcelona Somnath Chatterji and Yanling He. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

  • Specialist Mental Health Care

    Herman, H. and Whiteford, H. (2007). Specialist Mental Health Care. Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry. (pp. 541-551) edited by Bloch, S. and B. S. Singh. Australia: Melbourne University Press.

  • Investing in health to promote human capital in developing countries: The importance of productivity and health to the World Bank

    Whiteford, Harvey (2006). Investing in health to promote human capital in developing countries: The importance of productivity and health to the World Bank. Health and Work Productivity - Making the business case for quality health care. (pp. 253-270) edited by R.C. Kessler and P.E. Stang. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

  • Mental Disorders

    Hyman, Steven, Chisholm, Dan, Kessler, Ronald, Patel, Vikram and Whiteford, Harvey (2006). Mental Disorders. Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries. (pp. 605-625) edited by D. Jamison, J. Breman, A. Measham, G. Alleyne, M. Claeson, D. Evans, P. Jha, A. Mills and P. Musgrove. Washington, D.C.: Oxford University Press for the World Bank.

  • Social Capital and Mental Health

    Whiteford, Harvey, Cullen, Michelle and Baingana, Florence (2005). Social Capital and Mental Health. Promoting mental health: concepts, emerging evidence, practice : report of the World Health Organization, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse in collaboration with the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation and the University of Melbourne. (pp. 70-80) edited by H. Herrman, S. Saxena and R. Moodie. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organisation.

  • Monitoring Australia's mental health services

    Whiteford, H. A. and Buckingham, B. (2001). Monitoring Australia's mental health services. The Monitoring System for Mental Health Services. (pp. 63-74) edited by T. Kikkawa and T. Takeshima. Tokyo, Japan: Chuo Hoki Publications.

  • Unmet need: A challenge for governments

    Whiteford, H. A. (2000). Unmet need: A challenge for governments. Unmet Need in Psychiatry. (pp. 8-10) edited by Gavin Andrews and Scott Henderson. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

  • Medications: II-Adults

    Stedman, T.H. and Whiteford, H. (1991). Medications: II-Adults. Mental Health and Illness. A textbook for students of health sciences. (pp. 395-399) edited by Robert Kosky, Hadi Salimi Eshkevari and Vaughan Carr. Sydney ; Oxford ; Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann.

  • Clinically significant psychoactive drug interactions

    Csernansky, John G. and Whiteford, Harvey A. (1987). Clinically significant psychoactive drug interactions. The American Psychiatric Association Annual Review. (pp. 802-815) edited by Robert E. Hales and Allen J. Frances. United States of America: American Psychiatric Press.

Journal Article

Conference Publication

Other Outputs

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Note for students: Professor Harvey Whiteford is not currently available to take on new students.

Current Supervision

Completed Supervision

This staff member is a UQ Expert for media in the following fields:

Health - mental health policy, Health - mental health services, Mental health policy, Mental health services, Policy - mental health, Services - mental health

They are happy to lend their expertise to your articles or broadcasts and share their research discoveries and insights with the community via media channels.

For additional assistance with story ideas, general advice and information or help with seeking further experts, please email the UQ Media Team or telephone (07) 3365 1120.

Links

ResearcherID: A-4840-2009

ORCID: 0000-0003-4667-6623

Scopus ID: 55906494000

Google Scholar ID:

Personal Profile: Link

Unit Links
Other Media

Related Resources

Similar Staff
Researchers in Associated Units
Fields of Research