Giovanni de Girolamo

Giovanni de Girolamo is the former Scientific Director and the Head of the Unit of Epidemiological Psychiatry at the IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio in Brescia, Italy, leading clinical research centre in mental health located in Northern Italy. He is also Professor of Psychiatry at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart in Milan. From 1988 to 1994, he worked at the Division of Mental Health of WHO in Geneva under the guidance of Norman Sartorius. From 1998 to 2001 he was the coordinator of the National Mental Health Project, based at the Italian N.I.H. in Rome, which involved 27 specific research projects and more than 100 centres throughout Italy. He has set up and directed several large multicentre projects, including PROGRES, PROGRES-Acute, WHO World Mental Health Survey Initiative (Italian site), PREMIA, MILESTONE, VIORMED, EU-VIORMED, INTERPRET-DD project and DIAPASON. His research focuses on psychiatric epidemiology and health services research, schizophrenia, early interventions and forensic psychiatry. He is the co-author of 503 publications, including 41 volumes or monographs, 388 articles (281 indexed in Pubmed), and 76 book chapters. He has an H-index of 87 (Scopus, February 2022).