Participants

They come from all corners of the world and from a wide range of fields.

Eirini Agapidaki

Greece’s Alternate Minister of Health

Emile Bacha

Department Chair – Surgery, Columbia University NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Jason Bantjes

Director of the Mental Health, Alcohol, Substance Use and Tobacco Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council

Brian Chapman

Chief of Staff at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Center for Precision Psychiatry & Mental Health at Columbia University

Andreas Dracopoulos

SNF Co-President 

Wilza Fumo

Director of Mental Health at the Mozambique Ministry of Health

Lisa Gibbs

President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pulitzer Center

Lídia Gouveia

Mozambique Institute for Health Education and Research

Marcelo Kimati Dias

Director of the Department of Mental Health, Alcohol, and Other Drugs at Brazil's Ministry of Health

Delice Lumbu

Director of Youth Engagement at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Global Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the Child Mind Institute

Sibongile Monareng

Director for Psychosocial Support at the Department of Basic Education in South Africa

Luis Rohde

Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Aspasia Serdari

Director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Hospital of Alexandroupolis

Michael Shadlen

Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University, Principal Investigator at the Zuckerman Institute

Helen Sung

Jazz pianist and composer, associate professor at Columbia University

Chris Washburne

Professor of Music and Chair of the Music Department at Columbia University