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  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Graham Thornicroft is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans areas primarily within psychology and health professions, with notable contributions to general health professions, social psychology, clinical psychology, health, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's work broadly engages with topics such as mental health treatment and access, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, COVID-19 and mental health, mental health and patient involvement, employment and welfare studies, health policy implementation science, and family caregiving in mental illness.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Thornicroft include Charlotte Hanlon, Petra C. Gronholm, Brandon A. Kohrt, Mike Slade, and Heidi Lempp.

Publication venues where Thornicroft has frequently contributed include:

  • International Journal of Mental Health Systems
  • Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Lancet Psychiatry

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Thornicroft cover significant topics at the intersection of mental health and global challenges:

  • COVID-19 mental health impact and responses in low-income and middle-income countries: reimagining global mental health, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • The Lancet Commission on ending stigma and discrimination in mental health, 2022, The Lancet
  • Efficacy of psychosocial interventions for mental health outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries: an umbrella review, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • The clinical characterization of the patient with primary psychosis aimed at personalization of management, 2021, World Psychiatry
  • Mental Health of Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020, The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Thornicroft has also contributed to academic literature through book publications, including a work published by Cambridge University Press titled Camberwell Assessment of Need for Adults with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities in 2021.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • What is the impact of mental health-related stigma on help-seeking? A systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies.

    Sarah Clement;Oliver Schauman;Tanya Graham;F Maggioni

  • The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development.

    Vikram Patel;Shekhar Saxena;Crick Lund;Crick Lund;Graham Thornicroft

  • Estimating the true global burden of mental illness.

    Daniel Vigo;Daniel Vigo;Graham Thornicroft;Rifat Atun

  • Resources for mental health: scarcity, inequity, and inefficiency

    Shekhar Saxena;Graham Thornicroft;Martin Knapp;Harvey Whiteford

  • Global pattern of experienced and anticipated discrimination against people with schizophrenia: a cross-sectional survey

    Graham Thornicroft;Elaine Brohan;Diana Rose;Norman Sartorius

  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission: a blueprint for protecting physical health in people with mental illness

    Joseph Firth;Joseph Firth;Joseph Firth;Najma Siddiqi;Ai Koyanagi;Ai Koyanagi;Ai Koyanagi;Dan J Siskind

  • Evidence for effective interventions to reduce mental-health-related stigma and discrimination

    Graham Thornicroft;Nisha Mehta;Sarah Clement;Sara Evans-Lacko

  • Shunned: Discrimination against People with Mental Illness

    Graham Thornicroft

  • Stigma: ignorance, prejudice or discrimination?

    Graham Thornicroft;Diana Rose;Aliya Kassam;Norman Sartorius

  • Mental Illness Stigma, Help Seeking, and Public Health Programs.

    Claire Henderson;Sara Evans-Lacko;Graham Thornicroft

  • Undertreatment of people with major depressive disorder in 21 countries

    Graham Thornicroft;Somnath Chatterji;Sara Evans-Lacko;Michael Gruber

  • The Camberwell Assessment of Need: the validity and reliability of an instrument to assess the needs of people with severe mental illness.

    Michael Phelan;Mike Slade;Graham Thornicroft;Graham Dunn

  • Scale up services for mental disorders: a call for action.

    D Chisholm;A J Flisher;C Lund;V Patel

  • Addressing the burden of mental, neurological, and substance use disorders: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition

    Vikram Patel;Vikram Patel;Dan Chisholm;Rachana Parikh;Fiona J Charlson;Fiona J Charlson

  • A Brief Mental Health Outcome Scale-Reliability and Validity of the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF)

    Steven H. Jones;Graham Thornicroft;Michael Coffey;Graham Dunn

  • National Service Framework for Mental Health

    Graham Thornicroft

  • Excess mortality in persons with severe mental disorders: a multilevel intervention framework and priorities for clinical practice, policy and research agendas

    Nancy H. Liu;Nancy H. Liu;Gail L. Daumit;Tarun Dua;Ralph Aquila

  • Scale up of services for mental health in low-income and middle-income countries.

    Julian Eaton;Layla McCay;Maya Semrau;Sudipto Chatterjee

  • Self-stigma, empowerment and perceived discrimination among people with schizophrenia in 14 European countries: the GAMIAN-Europe study.

    Elaine Brohan;Rodney Elgie;Norman Sartorius;Graham Thornicroft

  • Reducing psychiatric stigma and discrimination: evaluation of educational interventions in UK secondary schools.

    Vanessa Pinfold;Hilary Toulmin;Graham Thornicroft;Peter Huxley

Frequent Co-Authors

Sara Evans-Lacko
Sara Evans-Lacko London School of Economics and Political Science
Morven Leese
Morven Leese King's College London
Mike Slade
Mike Slade University of Nottingham
Diana Rose
Diana Rose King's College London
Crick Lund
Crick Lund University of Cape Town
Michele Tansella
Michele Tansella University of Verona
Charlotte Hanlon
Charlotte Hanlon King's College London
Paul McCrone
Paul McCrone King's College London
Vikram Patel
Vikram Patel Harvard University
Norman Sartorius
Norman Sartorius World Psychiatric Association

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