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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Australia Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science

Overview

Harvey Whiteford is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a notable emphasis on mental health-related topics. Across their career, they have contributed extensively to areas including clinical psychology, social psychology, general health professions, health, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their published work covers a range of topics such as mental health treatment and access, health disparities and outcomes, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, psychiatric care and mental health services, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, schizophrenia research and treatment, and employment and welfare studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Whiteford include Damian Santomauro, John J. McGrath, Alize J Ferrari, Meredith Harris, and Louisa Degenhardt.

They have published in several scientific venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • The Lancet
  • Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences

Significant papers authored or co-authored by Whiteford include:

  • Global prevalence and burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in 204 countries and territories in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic (2021), published in The Lancet
  • Association between Mental Disorders and Subsequent Medical Conditions (2020), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • The hidden burden of eating disorders: an extension of estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (2021), published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • The global gap in treatment coverage for major depressive disorder in 84 countries from 2000-2019: A systematic review and Bayesian meta-regression analysis (2022), published in PLoS Medicine
  • The cost of mental disorders: a systematic review (2020), published in Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences

In recognition of their contributions to the health and medical sciences, Harvey Whiteford was named a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Theo Vos;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Stephen S. Lim;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas

  • Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Theo Vos;Rafael Lozano;Mohsen Naghavi

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gregory A Roth;Gregory A Roth;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Solomon M Abay

  • Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Mohsen Naghavi;Rafael Lozano

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global burden of disease attributable to mental and substance use disorders: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

    Harvey A. Whiteford;Harvey A. Whiteford;Louisa Degenhardt;Louisa Degenhardt;Juergen Rehm;Juergen Rehm;Amanda J. Baxter;Amanda J. Baxter

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Theo Vos;Christine Allen;Megha Arora;Ryan M Barber

  • Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Haidong Wang;Mohsen Naghavi;Christine Allen;Ryan M Barber

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Mohsen Naghavi;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M Abbas

  • Global prevalence and burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in 204 countries and territories in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Damian F Santomauro;Ana M Mantilla Herrera;Jamileh Shadid;Peng Zheng

  • Burden of depressive disorders by country, sex, age, and year: findings from the global burden of disease study 2010

    Alize J. Ferrari;Fiona J. Charlson;Rosana E. Norman;Rosana E. Norman;Scott B. Patten

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Simon I Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Max G Griswold;Nancy Fullman;Caitlin Hawley;Nicholas Arian

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

Frequent Co-Authors

Fiona J Charlson
Fiona J Charlson Centre for Mental Health
Theo Vos
Theo Vos Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt University of New South Wales
Amanda J. Baxter
Amanda J. Baxter University of Queensland
John J. McGrath
John J. McGrath Aarhus University
Holly E. Erskine
Holly E. Erskine University of Queensland
Christopher J L Murray
Christopher J L Murray University of Washington
Mohsen Naghavi
Mohsen Naghavi Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Alan D. Lopez
Alan D. Lopez University of Melbourne
Rosana E. Norman
Rosana E. Norman Queensland University of Technology

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