Dr Roy Abraham Kallivayalil is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, Thiruvalla and Mar Sleeva Medicity, Palai, Kerala, India. He is Chair of the World Association of Social Psychiatry Council and was President of World Association for Social Psychiatry (2016-19). He is Chair, WPA Section on Psychiatry, Law and Ethics, Vice President of the World Association for Dynamic Psychiatry, Berlin and Vice President (Asia Pacific), World Federation for Mental Health. He is Honorary Chair and Professor (Magister ad Honorem) at the Milan School of Medicine, Italy and President of the National Alliance for Mental Health, India.

 

He was the Secretary General of the World Psychiatric Association, Geneva (2014-2020), President of Indian Psychiatric Society (2012-13) and President of the Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (2007-08). He was Principal of Ernakulam Medical College, Kochi and Professor and Head of Psychiatry at Thrissur and Kottayam Medical Colleges, India.  

He was awarded ‘Best Doctor Award’ by Govt of Kerala in 2007, IMA Life-time Achievement Award, Honorary Fellowship of World Psychiatric Association, NN De Oration Award 2021 and A Venkoba Rao Oration Award 2022 and WFMH Award for meritorious services to the cause of Mental Health in 2017.

 

He has more than 120 publications in peer reviewed scientific journals and has edited the books Suicide Prevention- a handbook for Community Gatekeepers (2009) and the WASP Textbook of Social Psychiatry, OUP (2023). He is the lead editor of the highly acclaimed book ‘The Glow of Synthesis: 12 Beacons of Social Psychiatry (2025).

Professor Shridhar Sharma is Emeritus Professor in Psychiatry, National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS) of India is an Internationally and Nationally recognized medical leader in the field of Psychiatry with expertise in the area of Social Psychiatry, Health Policy, Medical Education and Planning, Psychopharmacology and a strong advocate of human rights of mental patients.

 

He has occupied significant positions in both Academic and Administrative fields at national level. Was the Director of the Institute of Human Behaviour & Allied Sciences, Government of Delhi (1993-96). Additional Director General of Health Services in the Ministry of Health, Government of India (1991-93);  a former Director, Post Graduate Institute of Medical, Education and Research, Chandigarh (1990-91); Medical Superintendent, Safdarjung General Hospital, New Delhi (1986-88)’ and Director & Professor, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Govt. of India, Ranchi (1981-86).  Professor & Head Dept. of Psychiatry Goa, Medical College from 1968-81. Head, Dept. of Psychiatry, Medical College, Baroda (1965-68). He was Hony. Physician to the President of India (1989-93).

 

Position in Societies:

Formerly President World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP) (2001-2004), Chairman, Board of Trustees, World Association for Social Psychiatry (2004-07), President of Indian Psychiatry Society (1985-86), Indian Association of Social Psychiatry (1986-87) and Chairman of World Psychiatric Association, Review Committee (1983-89) and was founder Secretary, “Conflict Resolution and Conflict Management Committee” and former Vice Chairman of Interdisciplinary Committee and other Committees of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA). He was also Vice president of the World Association of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Vice President, World Federation of Mental Health (WFMH) and Albert Schweitzer World Academy of Medicine.

 

He was bestowed with Dr. B.C. Roy National Award (1981), the Honorary Membership of the World Psychiatric Association, Hony. Fellowship of World Association of Social Psychiatry and World Association for Positive Psychotherapy, Hony. Fellow of World Association for Social Psychiatry in recognition of his achievements, contribution and leadership in the field of psychiatry and for making extraordinary efforts to promote the status of psychiatry, disseminating psychiatric knowledge as well as for his concern for the welfare of mental patients.

Affiliation:

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine, University Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco.

 

Short Bio/CV:

Driss Moussaoui was the founder and chairman of the Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre in Casablanca from 1979 to 2013. He was also director of the Casablanca WHO Collaborating Centre in Mental Health from 1992 to 2013.

 

He was president of the Moroccan Society of Psychiatry and of the Arab Federation of Psychiatrists. He edited or co-edited 12 books and published more than 160 papers in international journals.

 

He founded with the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Executive Committee the Jean Delay Prize (1999) and is the scientific director of the WPA series “International Anthologies of Classic Psychiatric Texts” (French, German, Spanish, Italian and Greek).

 

Driss Moussaoui is past-president of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP, 2010-2013) and member of the French Academy of Medicine. He is WPA and WASP Honorary Member, and immediate past-president of the International Federation for Psychotherapy (2018-2023), currently World Federation for Psychotherapy.

Professor Rachid Bennegadi is Immediate Past President of the World Association of Social Psychiatry and President of the French Association of Social Psychiatry He is a psychiatrist and anthropologist. With over 35 years of experience in the paradigm of migration and mental health. He was the Medical referent of the Françoise Minkowska Institute, a medico-psycho-social Centre providing person-centred transcultural psychiatry healthcare. He introduced Clinical Medical Anthropology in France and put it into place at the Minkowska Institute.

 

He co-directs a University Diploma “Health, Illness, Care and Cultural Competence” with the Paris University René Descartes. He also teaches at the Sigmund Freud University in Paris,. He started his psychiatry training in Paris at Necker Hospital, under the supervision of Prof Yves Pelicier. During his residency in psychiatry he simultaneously undertook graduate studies and obtained a degree in anthropology at “l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales” of Paris. His supervisor in anthropology was Prof François Raveau. During those years, he had the chance to meet with Prof George DeVos, an anthropologist from University California/Berkeley, who encouraged him to apply for a Fulbright Foundation grant to study ‘culture and personality’ at the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research (IPAR) at UC Berkeley. In furtherance of these efforts, he has been an active member of the TP Section of the WPA, as well as a participant in SSPC meetings. He has helped organizing several international congresses on the mental health of migrants and refugees .Later in 2005 he was very pleased to join the  TPS-WPA, and to become an active participant in the launching of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry. Later in 2019, he was elected President of the World Association of Social Psychiatry. He carries a private practice in Paris, where he specialized in treating patients in any of three languages; French, Arabic and English.

Tom K J Craig MD PhD FRCPsych is Emeritus Professor of Social Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London, Consultant psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley Hospital and. Past President World Association of Social Psychiatry.

 

Tom qualified in medicine at the University of the West Indies and trained in psychiatry in Nottingham UK. He was appointed to Kings College London as the first UK Professor of Community Psychiatry in 1990 and worked clinically in South London where he led the closure and re-provision of a hospital asylum and the development of community mental health services. He served as a member of the NHS England clinical advisory and Health Policy Commission, was the mental health lead for the National Clinical Advisory Team, and lead of the South London and South East England Mental Health Research Network. He is an honorary fellow of the World Psychiatric Association, the European Association of Social Psychiatry and received the Royal College of Psychiatrists lifetime award for contributions to rehabilitation psychiatry.  His clinical research focuses on developing and evaluating community-based psychiatric services and the promotion of these solutions at a National and International level. These programmes have included residential alternatives to the hospital asylum, studies of homeless mental health, specialised services for first episode psychosis and studies of AVATAR therapy for the treatment of auditory verbal hallucinations in psychosis.

Dr. Jorge Alberto Costa e Silva was born on March 26, 1942, in Vassouras (RJ).
Graduated from the School of Medicine of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), in 1966.
Specialization in Scientific Methodology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
Emeritus Professor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He was also Professor and Director of the International Center for Mental Health Policy and Research at the New York University Medical School and Senior Scientist at the International Center for Mental Health Prevention (New York).

 

Executive Director of the World Psychiatric Association – WPA (1983-1988).
President of the World Psychiatric Association – WPA (1988-1993).
President of the World Association of Social Psychiatry – WASP (1992-1996).
International Director of the World Health Organization – WHO in Geneva (1993).

 

Member of the Scientific Council of non-governmental organizations (NGO), intergovernmental associations and private associations. He is also Member of the Advisory Board of the Higher Institute of Social and Political Studies of the University of Lisbon.

 

Former President of the International Committee for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression; International Mental Health Council; World Association of Social Psychiatry, International Foundation for Mental Health; International Association of Medical Psychotherapy, etc. He was also member of the International Council for the Advancement of Global Health with UNESCO; Senator and Ambassador of the World Organization of the States for Security and Peace (W.O.S.) to the UN.

 

He was recently chosen among four professionals known by their expertise to coordinate the organization of the first European School of Medicine that will be in the city of Porto (Portugal) to prepare doctors for 2035.

 

Honorary Fellow and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; Emeritus Fellow of the American College of Psychiatry. Honorary Member of the Pan-American Psychiatric Association. Honorary Member of more than 50 psychiatric associations all over the world.

 

He received many awards and honors, such as the French Government’s “Chevalier dans l’ Ordre National du Mérite” (Vice-President of the Association or the Order in Brazil). He was also awarded the “Legion d’Honneur” by the French Government and “Doctor Honoris Causa” by the National University of Asunción in Paraguay, the University of the Republic of Uruguay and the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy in 2010. Doutor Honoris Causa of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro no Brasil and Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Lisbon (Portugal). Honorary Citizen of the city of New Orleans (US) and the City of Hamburg (Germany). He was also awarded the “Medal of Medical Merit” by the President of Brazil and is “Doctor Honoris Causa in Humanities” of the International Writers and Artists Association.

 

In 1999, he was awarded with the title of “World Leader in Psychiatry” for his contributions to
the progress and development of this specialty in that decade.