Center for Excellence in Mental Health Sciences

Unraveling new pathways to improve mental health: from complexity to action

CEMHS is in the process of being formed. Stay tunned for future developments.

**Our Mission**
To transform interventions and policy making to reduce incidence rates of mental health conditions, leveraging complexity and dynamics of mental health in our environment.
**Sub-missions**
From science to intervention
**Back translation from society to science; lived experience, policy makers**
**Translational interdisciplinary research from basic science to society (visual loop diagram)**
**Theory development and simulation of leverage points for interventions and policy making**
From intervention to society
**From science to society: implementation and dissemination of what works**
**Sustainable interventions and policy making across the lifespan**
**Prevention of mental health conditions in their living environment**

A strong alliance for excellence in mental health science.

Together with our distinguished members and institutional partners, we are exploring new territories in mental health sciences. Are you representing an organisation that is dedicated to improve mental health through research, intervention design or policy making? Contact us today and join our mission.

**Prof. Dr. Claudi Bockting**

**President** of the European Association of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment
**Director** of the University of Amsterdam’s Centre for Urban Mental Health
**Member** of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
**Professor** of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the Amsterdam UMC

**Prof. Dr. Reinout Wiers**

**Director** of the University of Amsterdam’s Centre for Urban Mental Health
**Professor** of Developmental Psychopathology at University of Amsterdam

**Prof. Dr. Klaus Mainzer**

**President** of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
**Emeritus of Excellence** at Technische Universität München
**Senior Professor** at the Tübingen University Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Centre

**Prof. Dr. Luis M. Rocha**

**George J. Kilr Professor** of Systems Sciences at State University of New York at Binghamton
**Principle Investigator** for Complex Adaptive Systems & Computational Biology at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

**Prof. Dr. Günter Schiepek**

**Director** of the Institute of Synergetics and Psychotherapy Research at Paracelsus Medical University
**Professor** at LMU Munich and Paracelsus Medical University

**Dr. Josefien Breedvelt**

**Prudence Trust Fellow** at Kings College London, IOPPN (UK)

**Prof. Dr. Silvia Schneider**

**Director** of the Ruhr-University Bochum’s Mental Health Research and Treatment Center
**Professor** of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology at Ruhr-University Bochum

**Prof. Dr. Franco Orsucci**

**President** of the Mind Force Society - Institute for Complexity Studies
**Visiting Professor** at University College London

**Prof. Dr. Omar Gelo**

**Associate Professor** for Dynamic Psychology, University of Salento (Italy)
**Director** of the International Ph.D Program in Psychotherapy Science, Sigmund Freud University Vienna (Austria)

**Prof. Dr. Johan Bollen**

**Professor** for Informatics and Cognitive Science, Indiana University (US)

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Are you representing an organisation that is dedicated to improve mental health through research, intervention design or policy making? Contact us today and join our mission.

Center for Excellence in Mental Health Sciences

Unraveling new pathways to improve mental health: from complexity to action

Our Mission

To transform interventions and policy making to reduce incidence rates of mental health conditions, leveraging complexity and dynamics of mental health in our environment.

Sub-missions

A strong alliance for excellence in mental health science.