EPA Task Forces

Presidential Task Forces 2025-2027

Learn more about the six Presidential Task Forces in the editorial A Roadmap for Better and Personalized Mental Health Care in Europe: The Priorities of the European Psychiatric Association, authored by Prof. Fiorillo and published in European Psychiatry.

1 – Treatment Delivery and New Settings of Care

Board members:

Umberto Volpe (team lead)
Judit Balázs
Julian Beezhold
Philippe Courtet
Meryam Schouler Ocak

Invited Experts:

Charlotte Blease (Sweden)
Nikolina Jovanovic (UK)
Maria Covadonga Martinez Diaz-Caneja (Spain)
Kim Mathiasen (Denmark)
Petr Winkler (Czech Republic)

2 – Precision Psychiatry

Board members:

Celso Arango (team lead)
Philippe Courtet
Peter Keri
Pavel Mohr
Martina Rojnic Kuzman

Invited Experts:

Brenda Pennix (the Netherlands)
Martien Kas (the Netherlands)
Andreas Reiff (Germany)
Livia de Picker (Belgium)
Inez Myin-Germeys (Belgium)

3 – Brain and Mental Health Across the Lifespan

Board members:

Geert Dom (team lead)
Judit Balazs
Eka Chkonia
Pavel Mohr
Umberto Volpe

Experts:

Claudio Bassetti (Switzerland)
Kristina Adorjan (Switzerland)
Indrit Begue (Switzerland)
Christoph Correll (Germany)
Evelina Pajediene (Lithuania)

4 – Lifestyle Behaviours, Physical and Mental Health, Multimorbidity

Board members:

Andrea Fiorillo (team lead)
Martina Rojnic Kuzman
Jerzy Samochowiec
Gaia Sampogna
Simavi Vahip

Experts:

Joseph Firth (UK)
Davy Vancampfort (Belgium)
Ivona Šimunović Filipčić (Croatia)
Blazej Misiak (Poland)
Dan Siskind (Australia)

5 – Public Mental Health

Board members:

Koray Başar (team lead)
Celso Arango
Julian Beezhold
Cécile Hanon
Simavi Vahip

Invited Experts:

Jonathan Campion (UK)
René Keet(the Netherlands)
Martin Preisig (Switzerland)
Giulio Castelpietra (Switzerland)
Annabel Muller-Stierlin (Germany)

6 – Protection of Mental Health of Vulnerable Groups

Board members:

Meryam Schouler Ocak (team lead)
Judit Balázs
Koray Başar
Bernardo Carpiniello
Jerzy Samochowiec

Invited Experts:

Sofie Bäärnhielm (Sweden)
Dinesh Bhugra (UK)
Marianne Kastrup (Denmark)
Ilaria Tarricone (Italy)
Luis Madeira (Portugal)

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
Peter Falkai
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