Speaker
Professor Panos Vostanis
Professor of Child Mental Health at the University of Leicester
Biography
Professor Vostanis has published extensively on the impact of trauma on child mental health, evaluation of interventions and services for traumatized children, including those living in conflict settings. Other research includes school mental health and service evaluation. He founded the World Awareness for Children in Trauma programme (www.wacit.org) to develop evidence-based psychosocial interventions and capacity building for vulnerable children and young people. To this effect, he is involved in several projects with NGOs and academic centres in Asia, Africa and Latin America, especially on service improvement. Professor Vostanis has longstanding clinical experience as a child psychiatrist with vulnerable children, young people and families, i.e. in care, homeless, adopted, refugees, young offenders, or living in disadvantage.