Departments within Mental Health & Psychological Sciences

Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre is an interdisciplinary research centre that focuses on how genetics ('nature') and the environment ('nurture') interact to affect psychiatric disorders, neurodevelopmental conditions, and individual differences across development. The Centre’s focus is on common psychiatric disorders and neurodevelopmental conditions that emerge in childhood and adolescence, such as mood disorders, ‘externalising’ disorders, and neurocognitive conditions.

The Health Service & Population Research Department conducts world-leading research and education using the social and health sciences to better understand and improve health outcomes, systems, and care, both locally and globally, particularly in disadvantaged and marginalised populations. The department is multi-disciplinary, and includes health care professionals, epidemiologists, economists, implementation scientists, qualitative methodologists, service users, social scientists and statisticians.