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PROF HELEN HERRMAN



Contact Details

Organization: Centre for Youth Mental Health
Position: PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY
Email:
Work: 83443183
Mobile: 0407842233
Fax: 83449130
Room: 522B
Level: 05
Building: 207 Bouverie St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Mental health and public health low income countries, depression, quality of life, mental health promotion Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Switzerland World Health Organisation Exchange, Research, Teaching, Technical Assistance/Training

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Medical Science Monash University 31-Dec-1967
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Monash University 31-Dec-1970
Doctor of Medicine Monash University 31-Dec-1982

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Victorian Health Promotion Foundation Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) Research and Evaluation Advisory Committee 01-Jan-2008

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (FAFPHM) 31-Dec-1990
Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPH-UK) 31-Dec-1982
Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) 31-Dec-1987

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Evaluation of adult mental health services using routine outcome measures Chief Investigator NHMRC Strategic Research Grants for Mental Health Research 01/01/2003
Diagnosis, Management and Outcomes of Depression in Primary care (DIAMOND) a longitudinal study Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2004
The diamond cohort study- examining depressive symptoms in primary care Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2007
The diamond cohort study - long term outcomes of depressive symptoms in primary care Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2009
Effectiveness of an internet intervention designed to promote mental health and prevent common mental disorders in youth Principal Supervisor NHMRC Scholarships 01/01/2009

Consultancies

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
PARTICPATORY INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE MENTAL HEALTH AS A STRATEGY FOR HIV PREVENTION AMOUNG VULNERABLE WOMEN IN NORTH EAST INDIA Chief Investigator 27/03/2006

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Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Community mental health care in the Asia-Pacific region: using current best practice models to inform future policy
    Year: 2009
    Journal: World Psychiatry
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  • Indexation of psychiatric journals from low and middle-income countries: a survey and case study
    Year: 2009
    Journal: World Psychiatry
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 40-44
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  • Quality of life and neurotic disorders in general healthcare
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Current Opinion in Psychiatry
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 61-68
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  • The 5/95 gap on the dissemination of mental health research: The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) task force report on project
    with editors of low and middle income (LAMI) countries
    Year: 2009
    Journal: African Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 33-39
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  • The Politics of Conducting Research on Depression in a Cross-Cultural Context
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Qualitative Health Research
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 708-717
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

Major Reference Works

  • International Encyclopedia of Public Health:Mental health promotion
    Year: 2008
    Reference Work Title: International Encyclopedia of Public Health
    Publisher: Academic Press - Elsevier Science(San Diego)
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Specialist Mental Health Care
    Year: 2007
    Book: Foundations of clinical psychiatry
    Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing(Parkville)
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Journal Articles

  • A participatory intervention to improve the mental health of widows of injecting drug users in north-east India as a strategy for HIV prevention
    Year: 2007
    Journal: BMC International Health and Human Rights
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 3
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  • Australian and New Zealand contribution to international mental health research publications: a survey of high-impact journals
    Year: 2007
    Journal: World Psychiatry
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 49-53
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  • Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre long-term follow-up study of first-episode psychosis: methodology and baseline characteristics
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Early Intervention in Psychiatry
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 49-60
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  • Early intervention in psychiatry for poorly resourced countries
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Early Intervention in Psychiatry
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 222-223
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  • Empowerment of women and mental health promotion: a qualitative study in rural Maharashtra, India
    Year: 2007
    Journal: BMC Public Health
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 225
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  • Factors influencing triage decisions in mental health services
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Health Review
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 239-245
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  • Free and low-cost access to online WPA publications
    Year: 2007
    Journal: World Psychiatry
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 191-192
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  • Promotion of mental health in poorly resourced countries
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 370
    Issue: 9594
    Page numbers: 1195-1197
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  • Scale up services for mental disorders: a call for action
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Lancet
    Volume: 370
    Page numbers: 1241-1252
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  • What psychiatry means to me
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Mens Sana Monographs
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 179-187
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  • World Health Organization's activities in the field of prevention of mental disorders
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Die Psychiatrie
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 166-175
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Hepatitis C in people with mental illness: how big is the problem and how do we respond?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australasian Psychiatry
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 374-378
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  • Interpreting the WHOQOL-BRÈF: preliminary population norms and effect sizes
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Social Indicators Research
    Volume: 77
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 37-59
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Promoting mental health: concepts, emerging evidence, practice
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: World Health Organization(Geneva)
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Book Chapters

  • Conclusions and recommendations
    Year: 2005
    Book: Promoting mental health: concepts, emerging evidence, practice
    Publisher: World Health Organization(Geneva)
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  • Introduction: Promoting mental health as a public health priority
    Year: 2005
    Book: Promoting mental health: concepts, emerging evidence, practice
    Publisher: World Health Organization(Geneva)
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  • Public policy and psychiatry: recent advances
    Year: 2005
    Book: Advances in psychiatry second volume
    Publisher: World Psychiatric Association(Geneva)
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Journal Articles

  • Community care for people with psychosis: Outcomes and needs for care
    Year: 2005
    Journal: International Review of Psychiatry
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 89-95
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing(Basingstroke)
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  • Major depression and its correlates in primary care settings in six countries
    Year: 2005
    Journal: British Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 186
    Page numbers: 41-47
    Publisher: Royal College of Psychiatrists(London)
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  • Mental health promotion in public health
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Promotion & Education
    Volume: Supplement 2
    Page numbers: 42-47
    Publisher: International Union for Health Promotion and Education(Paris)
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  • Prevention in Psychiatry
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Die Psychiatrie
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 39-46
    Publisher: Schattauer
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  • Public and private psychiatry: can they work together and is it worth the effort?
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 67-73
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Attitudes to outcome measurement: the importance of feedback
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 14th Annual TheMHS Conference
    Conference Publication: Harvesting hope: across the lifespan. Contemporary TheMHS in Mental Health Services
    Page numbers: 279-284
    Publisher: The Mental Health Services Conference Inc. of Australia and New Zealand (TheMHS)(Balmain)
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  • Promoting mental health: concepts, emerging evidence, practice - proceedings of the third world conference on the promotion of mental health and prevention of mental and behavioural disorders
    Year: 2005
    Event name: the third world conference on the promotion of mental health and prevention of mental and behavioural disorders
    Conference Publication: From research to effective practice
    Page numbers: 97-102
    Publisher: US Department of Health and Human Services
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Promoting mental health and wellbeing
    Year: 2004
    Book: Hands-on Health Promotion
    Publisher: IP Communications(Hawthorn East)
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Journal Articles

  • An ethnographic study of three mental health triage programs
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 146-151
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Asia
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  • Demographic and clinical correlates of comorbid substance use disorders in psychosis: multivariate analyses from an epidemiological sample.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 66
    Page numbers: 115-124
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Developing methods for assessing quality of life in different cultural settings - The history of the WHOQOL instruments
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 1-8
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  • Developing methods for assessing quality of life in different cultural settings: the history of the WHOQOL instruments
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 1-8
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  • Disability and service use among homeless people living with psychotic disorders.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 965-974
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Improving collaboration between private psychiatrists, the public mental health sector and general practitioners: evaluation of the Partnership Project
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 125-134
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  • Self-esteem in patients who have recovered from psychosis: profile and relationship to quality of life
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 334-338
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • The assessment of patients with long-term psychotic disorders: application of the WHO Disability Assessment Schedule II
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 753-759
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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Reports

  • Promoting Mental Health: Concepts, Emerging Evidence, Practice - Summary Report
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: World Health Organization(Geneva)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Association between clinically depressed subgroups, type of treatment and patient retention in the LIDO study


    Year: 2003
    Journal: Psychological Medicine
    Volume: 33
    Page numbers: 1051-1059
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  • International collaborations on mental health promotion: a Western Pacific initiative


    Year: 2003
    Journal: Die Psychiatrie
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 272-289
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  • Depression status, medical comorbidity and resource costs
    Year: 2003
    Journal: British Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 183
    Page numbers: 121-131
    Publisher: Royal College of Psychiatrists(London)
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  • Mental health: Improvement involves educators, among others.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: UN Chronicle
    Volume: XL Jun-Aug '03
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 38-39
    Publisher: UN Department of Public Information(New York)
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  • The relationship between social networks and occupational and self-care functioning in people with psychosis
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 180-188
    Publisher: Dr Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag(Darmstadt)
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  • WPA consensus statement on psychiatric prevention
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Die Psychiatrie
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 307-315
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Reports

  • Improving quality of life for people with schizophrenia: barriers to access to atypical anti-psychotic medication
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Beyond interdisciplinary boundaries: views of consumers, carers and non-government organisations on teamwork
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australasian Psychiatry
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 125-129
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Asia
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  • Course of depression, health services costs and work productivity in an international primary care study
    Year: 2002
    Journal: General Hospital Psychiatry
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 328-335
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Philadelphia)
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  • Longitudinal investigation of depression outcomes in primary care in 6 countries
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Psychological Medicine
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 889-902
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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  • Quality of life assessment in people living with psychosis
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
    Volume: 37
    Page numbers: 510-518
    Publisher: Dr Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag(Darmstadt)
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  • The Australian National Survey of Psychotic Disorders: Profile of psychosocial disability and its risk factors.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Psychological Medicine
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 639-647
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  • The assessment of disability in patients with psychotic disorders
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 127-132
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • The roles and relationships of psychiatrists in mental health service provision
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 75-80
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • What is duty/triage? Understanding the role of duty/triage in an area mental health service
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 787-791
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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Reports

  • Low prevalence disorder component of the National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Commonwealth Department of Health & Aged Care(Canberra)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Specialist mental health care.
    Year: 2001
    Book: Foundations of clinical psychiatry.
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Journal Articles

  • Defining disability in psychosis: Performance of the diagnostic interview for psychoses-disability module (dip-dis) in the Australian National Survey of Psychotic Disorders
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 846-851
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  • Evaluating complex, collaborative programmes: the Partnership Project as a case study
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 35
    Page numbers: 639-646
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Longitudinal investigation of depression outcomes (the LIDO Study) in primary care in six countries: comparative assessment of local health systems and resource utilization
    Year: 2001
    Journal: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 59-71
    Publisher: Whurr Publishers
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  • The burden of mental disorders in Victoria, 1996
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 53-62
    Publisher: Dr Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag(Darmstadt)
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  • The need for mental health promotion
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 709-715
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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