european psychiatric association

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