Director, VTPU

Director, Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit, St Vincent’s Health Melbourne
Director, Centre for International Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne

Harry Minas’ work is in three broad areas:
1. Culture and mental health, with a focus on mental health of immigrant and refugee communities and the development of services for culturally diverse societies;
2. Mental health system development and reform, in Australia (focusing on mental health services for CALD communities) and in low-resource and post-conflict settings;
3. The human rights of people with mental illness.

He is:
•     Honorary Lecturer on Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
•     Visiting Professor, Taipei Medical University
•     Director, International Observatory on Mental Health Systems
•     Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre on Research and Training in Mental Health 
       and Substance Abuse
•     Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Mental Health Systems
•     Head of Secretariat, Movement for Global Mental Health
•     Chair, Section of Social & Cultural Psychiatry, Royal Australian & New Zealand 
       College of Psychiatrists
•     Member, World Health Organization International Expert Panel on Mental Health 
       and Substance Abuse
•     Member, Council for Immigration Services and Status Resolution 
       (a committee advising the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship)