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My interests are in how best to plan, fund and deliver mental health services and understanding how we can make services more efficient and effective. Professor Whiteford trained in medicine, psychiatry and health policy in Queensland, Australia and at Stanford University in the USA. 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. In 1999 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 neuropsychiatric disorders.
Professor Whiteford leads the Policy and Economics Group at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research which has a research program in mental health policy analysis; structural reform of mental health services in the areas of organization and financing; the impact of mental disorder on role functioning and productivity; vocational recovery and measures of service outcome, quality and effectiveness.
He works as a consultant to the World Bank, the World Health Organisation, the Australian Federal government.
He has clinical responsibilities in general adult psychiatry, teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students. He had been a visiting Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and Harvard University in Boston.
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