Ronny Bruffaerts

Ronny Bruffaerts is professor of psychiatry at KU Leuven in Belgium. He is a clinical and theoretical psychologist by education and holds a PhD in Medical Sciences (2005). He has lead the Center for Public Health Psychiatry since 2017. His main research field is psychiatric epidemiology, where the focus lies on monitoring population dynamics of mental disorders and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Among others, he co-directs the global WMH-ICS initiative, and leads several other major psychiatric epidemiological studies and evaluation studies in the field of mental health care innovations.