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IMHPA is a network of partners across 30 countries of the European Region, including 45 partners from European Member States, countries in accession and Norway. In addition, IMHPA works in close collaboration with five European mental health networks and has the support of the WHO.

The IMHPA network is composed of different sub-groups:

Project leaders and Management Team (show > > )
Country partners (show > > )
Networks (show > > )
Experts (show > > )

Each of these groups has different roles and responsibilities.

  Project leaders and management team

The project leaders and management team are based at the Programme on Substance Abuse, Department of Health, Generalitat de Catalunya (Government of Catalonia), Spain and the Mental Health Programme, regional office of WHO/Euro, Copenhagen, Denmark.

  Partners

IMHPA has 28 partners from European Member States and Accession countries with 28 country representatives that act as network partners and country coalition leaders within their country.

Country	Name, Title	Affiliation	E-mail
Austria	Prof. Jurgen Pelikan,	Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Sociology of Health and Medicine	juergen.pelikan@univie.ac.at
Belgium	Pol Gerits, MD	Cellule des Soins psychiatriques Ministère des Affaires sociales de la Santé publique et de l’Environnement	pol.gerits@health.fgov.be
Bulgaria	Prof. Toma Tomov,	New Bulgarian University, Bulgarian Institute of Human Relations	ttomov@datacom.bg
Cyprus	Costas Kyranides, MD	Mental Health Services of Cyprus, Ministry of Health	kyranide@spidernet.com.cy
Czech Republic	Cyril Höschl, Prof. PhD	Psychiatricke Centrum Praha, Laboratory of Social Psychiatry	hoschl@pcp.lf3.cuni.cz
Estonia	Prof. Airi Värnik,	Estonian-Swedish Institute of Suicidology	airiv@online.ee
Finland	Prof. Kristian Wahlbeck,	STAKES National Research and Development Centre of Welfare and Health	kristian.wahlbeck@stakes.fi
France	Vivianne Kovess, Prof. PhD	Fondation MGEN pour la Santé Publique	vkovess@libertysurf.fr
Greece	Athanassios Constantopoulos, MD	Mental Health Centre	mhc@otenet.gr
Hungary	Maria Kopp, Prof. PhD	Semmelweis University Budapest, Institute of Behavioural Sciences	kopmar@net.sote.hu
Ireland	Prof. Margaret Barry	Department of Health Promotion, National University of Ireland	margaret.barry@nuigalway.ie
Italy	Prof. Mirella Ruggeri,	Department of Medicine and Public Health, University of Verona	mirella.ruggeri@univr.it
Latvia	Maris Taube, PhD	Psychiatric Centre	maris.taube@gvva.gov.lv
Lithuania	Prof. Dainius Puras,	Health Department of Social Pediatrics and Child Psychiatry, Vilnius University	dainius.puras@mf.vu.lt
Luxembourg	Charles Pull, MD	Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg Service de Psychiatrie	Pull.Charles@chl.lu
Malta	Raymond Xerri, MD	Ministry of Health Dept. of Health Policy & Programme Implementation	Ray.xerri@gov.mt
Norway	Prof. Maurice Mittelmark,	Department of Psychosocial Sciences and Research Centre for Health Promotion, University of Bergen	maurice.mittelmark@psych.uib.no
Poland	Prof. Czeslaw Czabala,	Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology	czabala@ipin.edu.pl
Portugal	Maria João Heitor dos Santos, MD,	Directorate General of Health	mjhs@dgsaude.min-saude.pt
Romania	Bogdana Tudorache, PhD	Romanian League for Mental Health	lrsm@dnt.ro
Scotland (UK)	Emma Hogg	National Health Service, Scotland	emma.hogg@health.scot.nhs.uk
Slovakia	Peter Breier, PhD	Liga za dusovne zdravie - League for Mental Health	breier@nspr.sk
Slovenia	Andrej Marusic, PhD	Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia	andrej.marusic@ivz-rs.si
Spain	Joan Colom, MD	Health Department of the Government of Catalonia	joan.colom@gencat.net
Sweden	Prof. Lars Jacobsson,	WHO Collaboration Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, University of Umea	lars.jacobsson@psychiat.umu.se
The Netherlands	Prof. Clemens Hosman,	University of Nijmegen, Prevention Research Centre on Mental Health Promotion and Mental Disorder Prevention	hosman@psych.kun.nl
Turkey	Toker Erguder, MD	Ministry of Health Primary Health Care General Directorate, Mental Health Dept	terguder@saglik.gov.tr
UK	Linda Seymour	The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health	linda.seymour@scmh.org.uk

  Experts

In addition, the IMHPA project has six official consultants based in various countries who provide guidelines and develop content work for the project products.

Name Title	Organization	E-mail
Angelo Barbato MD.	Istituto Di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Unit of Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry, Italy	dirba@tin.it
Prof. Eleni Petridou)	National and Medical School Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Greece	epetrid@med.uoa.gr
Prof. Heinz Katschnig	Medical University of Vienna, Department of Psychiatry, Austria	Heinz.katschnig@meduniwien.ac.at
Prof. Josipa Basic	Department of Behavior Disorders Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences University of Zagreb, Croatia	basic@erf.hr
Peter Anderson MD. PhD	Public Health Consultant	pdanderson@compuserve.com
Prof. Rachel Jenkins	Kings College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Health Services Research Department, UK	r.jenkins@iop.kcl.ac.uk

  Networks