Speaker
Prof Helen L. Fisher
Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at King's College London
Biography
Helen L. Fisher is a Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience and ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health at King's College London. She currently has the honour of leading the E-Risk Longitudinal Twin Study. Her interdisciplinary research programme capitalises on longitudinal cohort studies to improve our understanding of how social, psychological, biological, and wider environmental factors are involved in the development, course, and prevention of psychosis and depression. She is also extremely passionate about finding ways to creatively engage the public to better understand mental ill-health to hopefully reduce stigma and increase help-seeking.