EPA Task Forces

Presidential Task Forces 2025-2027

Introducing the new EPA Task Forces for 2025–2027: Advancing Personalised, Integrated Mental Health Care Across Europe

The EPA is pleased to announce the launch of its new Task Forces for the 2025–2027 term, addressing six key areas: Treatment Delivery and New Settings of Care; Precision Psychiatry; Brain and Mental Health Across the Lifespan; Whole Person Health; Public Mental Health; Protection of Mental Health of Vulnerable Groups.

Drawing on the core priorities of the Roadmap for Better and Personalised Mental Health Care in Europe, these Task Forces aim to provide expert guidance, develop practical recommendations, and support policy and practice across Europe. These initiatives bring together leading experts representing diverse disciplines and regions. By aligning with the EPA’s long-term vision, the Task Forces are a critical mechanism for translating evidence into action: supporting mental health systems that are accessible, inclusive, sustainable, and responsive to the needs of all.

1 – Treatment Delivery and New Settings of Care

Umberto Volpe (team lead)
Judit Balázs
Julian Beezhold
Charlotte Blease
Philippe Courtet
Nikolina Jovanovic
Maria Covadonga Martinez Diaz-Caneja
Kim Mathiasen
Meryam Schouler Ocak
Petr Winkler

2 – Precision Psychiatry

Celso Arango (team lead)
Philippe Courtet
Livia de Picker
Martien Kas
Peter Keri
Pavel Mohr
Inez Myin-Germeys
Brenda Pennix
Andreas Reiff
Martina Rojnic Kuzman

3 – Brain and Mental Health Across the Lifespan

Geert Dom (team lead)
Kristina Adorjan
Judit Balazs
Claudio Bassetti
Indrit Begue
Eka Chkonia
Christoph Correll
Pavel Mohr
Evelina Pajediene
Umberto Volpe

4 – WHOLE PERSON HEALTH

Andrea Fiorillo (team lead)
Joseph Firth
Blazej Misiak
Martina Rojnic Kuzman
Jerzy Samochowiec
Gaia Sampogna
Simavi Vahip
Ivona Šimunović Filipčić
Dan Siskind
Davy Vancampfort

5 – Public Mental Health

Koray Başar (team lead)
Celso Arango
Julian Beezhold
Jonathan Campion
Giulio Castelpietra
Cécile Hanon
René Keet
Annabel Muller-Stierlin
Martin Preisig
Simavi Vahip

6 – Protection of Mental Health of Vulnerable Groups

Meryam Schouler Ocak (team lead)
Sofie Bäärnhielm
Judit Balázs
Koray Başar
Dinesh Bhugra
Bernardo Carpiniello
Marianne Kastrup
Luis Madeira
Jerzy Samochowiec
Ilaria Tarricone

Presidential Task Forces 2023-2025

Task Force on URBANISATION and mental health

Kristina Adorjan
Julian Beezhold
Victor Buwalda
Jonathan Campion
Philippe Courtet
Marianne Destoop
Geert Dom
Peter Falkai
Fabian Kraxner
Błażej Misiak
Meryam Schouler-Ocak
Umberto Volpe

Task Force on Financial Sustainability

Julian Beezhold
Geert Dom
Andrea Fiorillo
Martina Rojnic Kuzman
Simone De Ioanna

Task Force on Climate Change and Mental Health

Kristina Adorjan
Kirsten Catthoor
Eka Chkonia
Geert Dom
Peter Falkai
Andrea Fiorillo
Tomasz Gondek
Andreas Heinz
Jurjen Luykx
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Jessica Newberry Le Vay
Martina Rojnic Kuzman

General Task Forces

Task force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Bernardo Carpiniello
Kirsten Catthoor
Philippe Courtet
Geert Dom
Cécile Hanon
Olivia Kalinowski
Lars Lien
Radboud Marijnissen
Pavel Mohr
Meryam Schouler-Ocak
Jan Wise

TASK FORCE ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND MENTAL HEALTH

Meryam Schouler-Ocak (Chair)
Felicia Boma Lazaridou
Helen Bennett
Geert Dom
Tomasz Gondek
Pavel Mohr
Asilay Seker
Agata Todzia-Kornaś

Task Force on Migration and Mental Health

Meryam Schouler-Ocak (Chair)
Tamer Aker
Dinesh Bhugra
Sofie Bäärhielm
Egor Chumakov
Ilaria Tarricone
Jerzy Samochowiec
Apostolos Veizis
Kristina Adorjan

Task Force on Sections

The objectives of this task force are to harmonise Sections’ activities, to increase interaction between Sections as well as between Sections and NPAs, to develop interaction with early career psychiatrists (ECPs), to improve the involvement of Sections in EPA activities including the visibility of Sections at the EPA Congresses, and to establish some rules of procedures.

Umberto Volpe (Chair)
Egor Chumakov
Andrea Fiorillo
Pavel Mohr
Martina Rojnic Kuzman
Meryam Schouler-Ocak
Angelika Wieck