Samuel Harvey MBBS, MRCGP, MRCPsych, FRANZCP, PhD

A/Prof Samuel Harvey is the Head of Workplace Mental Health Reserach Program at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and a Research Fellow at the Black Dog Institute (BDI). He is a psychiatrist, general practitioner and epidemiologist whose research focuses on the relationship between work and mental health. Prior to moving back to Australia in 2011, Dr Harvey worked at the internationally renowned Institute of Psychiatry in London. He now leads a team of researchers at UNSW/BDI examining the role work may have in precipitating mental illness and evaluating workplace-based mental health interventions. Over the last five years, Dr Harvey has successfully obtained over three million dollars in grant funding and has established active collaborations with research centres in London (King’s College) and Norway. In 2009, he was awarded the UK Royal Society of Medicine Young Epidemiologist of the Year.