Herrman, Helen Edith (1947 - )

Summary

Helen Herrman was appointed Professor and Director of Psychiatry at St Vincent's Hospital and the University of Melbourne. She teaches general psychiatry, social psychiatry, psychiatric epidemiology and mental health promotion. Herrman's areas of research interest are focussed on epidemiological and public health psychiatry.

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Chronology

1967

Education - BMedSc, Monash University

1970

Education - MB BS, Monash University

1971 - 1972

Career position - Junior Resident Medical Officer, Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne

1972 - 1973

Career position - Demonstrator in Human Anatomy, University of Oxford

1973 - 1978

Career position - (Senior) Registrar in Community Medicine, Oxford Regional Health Authority, United Kingdom

1979 - 1980

Career position - Specialist Medical Officer, Planning and Research Division, Health Commission of Victoria

1979 - 1989

Career position - Associate, Department of Community Health, University of Melbourne

1980 - 1981

Career position - Lecturer in Community Health (part-time), University of Melbourne

1982

Education - Fellow, Faculty of Public Health, Royal College of Physicians, London

1982

Education - MD, University of Melbourne

1982 - 1987

Career position - Trainee Psychiatrist, Mental Health Division, Health Commission of Victoria

1987 -

Award - Fellow, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

1987 - 1989

Career position - Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Victoria

1987 - 1989

Career position - Senior Lecturer (part-time), Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University

1987 - 1989

Career position - Consulting Psychiatrist at the Royal Park Hospital, Melbourne

1988 - 1989

Career position - Director (part-time), Psychiatric Epidemiology and Services Evaluation Unit, Victorian Department of Health

1989 - 1992

Career position - Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University

1989 - 1992

Career position - Director of Psychiatry in the Epidemiology and Services Evaluation Unit of the Victorian Department of Health

1990 -

Career position - Foundation Fellow, Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians

1992 -

Career position - Professor and Director of Psychiatry at St Vincent's Hospital and the University of Melbourne

1992 - 2005

Career position - Professor and Director of Psychiatry, St Vincent's Mental Health Service, Melbourne and Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne

1994 -

Career position - Director, Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, World Health Organization

1995 - 2000

Career position - Chair, Consumer Outcomes Project Advisory Group, National Mental Health Strategy, Commonwealth Department of Human Services

1995 - 2003

Career position - Member, Board of Trustees, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation

1996 - 2002

Career position - Founding Chair, Professional Relations Committee, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

1997 - 2000

Career position - Treasurer, Section of Epidemiology and Public Health, World Psychiatric Association

2000 - 2007

Career position - Professorial Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Melbourne

2001 - 2002

Career position - Acting Regional Advisor, Mental Health Western Pacific Region, World Health Organization

2001 - 2012

Career position - Member, Research Fellowships Peer Review Panel, N.H.M.R.C.

2002 - 2005

Career position - Chair, Section of Public Policy and Psychiatry, World Psychiatric Association

2003 - 2005

Career position - Program Director, Mental Health, Corrections & Drug and Alcohol, St Vincent's Health, Melbourne

2003 - 2005

Career position - Professorial Fellow, The George Institute for International Health, University of Sydney

2004 -

Career position - Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, St Vincent's Hospital, University of Melbourne

2004 - 2009

Career position - Vice-President, International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology

2005 -

Career position - Program Director, Mental Health, Corrections & Drug and Alcohol, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne

2005 - 2007

Career position - Director, Academic Programs, Australian International Health Institute, University of Melbourne

2005 - 2008

Career position - Professor, Australian International Health Institute, University of Melbourne

2005 - 2009

Career position - Vice-President, International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology

2005 - 2011

Career position - Member, Executive Committee, World Psychiatric Association

2005 - 2011

Career position - Associate Editor, World Psychiatry

2007 - 2011

Career position - Regional Vice-President Oceania, World Federation for Mental Health

2008 -

Career position - Professor of Psychiatry, Orygen Youth Health Research Centre and Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne

2008 - 2012

Career position - Representative and Chair, Global Consortium for Advancement of Promotion and Prevention in Mental Health

2009

Award - International Distinguished Fellowship, American Psychiatric Association

2010 -

Career position - Member, Specialist Medical Review Council, Commonwealth Government

2010

Award - College Citation for contributions to national and international psychiatry, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

2010 - 2014

Career position - Practitioner Fellowship, Public Psychiatry, National Health and Medical Research Council

2011 -

Award - Honorary Fellow, World Psychiatric Association

2011 -

Career position - Member, international Advisory Board, World Psychiatry

2012 - 2014

Career position - President-Elect, Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists

2012 - 2015

Career position - Member, Principal Committee, Prevention and Community Health, N.H.M.R.C.

2012 - 2015

Career position - Chair, International Working Group, Co-operative Research Centre

2013

Award - Inducted into Victorian Honour Roll of Women

2013 - 2015

Career position - Vice-President, International Association of Women's Mental Health

2014 - 2016

Career position - President, Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists

2015 - 2017

Career position - President, International Association of Women's Mental Health

2015 - 2019

Career position - Practitioner Fellowship, Public Psychiatry, National Health and Medical Research Council

2016

Award - Doctor of Medical Science (DMedSc), honoris causa, University of Melbourne

2017 -

Career position - President, World Psychiatric Association

2017

Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) - for distinguished service to medicine, and to mental health, as a leading clinician, researcher and scientist, to national and professional scientific organisations, and through programs to support youth and women

Related entries

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q46956609. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/48986743. Details
• 'Herrman, Helen Edith (1947-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475759. Details
• 'Awarded honorary DMedSc, 2016 [Citation provided]', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. Details

See also

• Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details