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Jacqueline W. Curtis or Jacqueline Curtis AO received an Order of Australia in 2024, for "service to medicine, particularly as a mental health clinician and researcher", and is a professor of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of New South Wales. She is the executive director of the Mindgardens Neuroscience Network, in Sydney, Australia.

Education and career
Curtis recieved her MBBS (Honours) in medicine, fronm the University of New South Wales, and FRANZCP qualification, from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

She was appointed, in 2020, the first director of Mindgarden Neuroscience Network, an organisation which links various members, including the Black Dog institute, NeuRA, as well as the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, with the goal of connecting researchers and clinicical health experts working in drug and alcohol, mental health and neurological disorders. Curtis has specialised in early psychosis, and the mental health of youth and young people.

Curtis also founded the iphYs working group, which is an international group which advocates for improvements in mental and physical health of young people who are experiencing psychosis in their lives. She is also a committee member of the World Health Organisation, invited to work in global guidelines for the "management of physical health conditions in adults with severe mental disorders".

Curtis's contributions to mental health reform in NSW was described in a book, profiled in "Hope, strength and determination: Celebrating 50 years of women activists and reformers in mental health in NSW, 1970 – 2020", which is published by the NSW Mental Health Commission.

Her career has been based around research which transforms mental health services, particularly for young people, to include both physical and mental health. She has focussed on reducing health inequalities in mental health for young people and communities across Australia.

Publications
Curtis has over 125 publications, over 5200 citations and an H-index of 30, as at July 2024, according to Google Scholar. Select publications include:


 * Curtis J; Teasdale SB; Morell R; Wadhwa P; Watkins A; Lederman O; O'Donnell C; Fibbins H; Ward PB, 2024, 'Implementation of a lifestyle and life-skills intervention to prevent weight-gain and cardiometabolic abnormalities in young people with first-episode psychosis as part of routine care: The Keeping the Body in Mind program', Early Intervention in Psychiatry, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eip.13508


 * Curtis J; Teasdale S; Morell R; Wadhwa P; Lederman O; Fibbins H; Watkins A; Ward P, 2022, 'Implementation of a lifestyle and life-skills intervention to prevent weight-gain and cardiometabolic abnormalities in people with first-episode psychosis: the Keeping the Body in Mind program', European Psychiatry, 65, pp. S131 - S132, http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.359


 * Curtis J; Zhang C; McGuigan B; Pavel-Wood E; Morell R; Ward PB; Watkins A; Lappin J, 2018, 'y-QUIT: Smoking Prevalence, Engagement, and Effectiveness of an Individualized Smoking Cessation Intervention in Youth With Severe Mental Illness', Frontiers in Psychiatry, 9, pp. 683, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00683.


 * Curtis J; Watkins A; Teasdale S; Lederman O; Kalucy M; Lappin J; Samaras K; Rosenbaum S; Ward PB, 2018, '2-year follow-up: Still keeping the body in mind', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 52, pp. 602 - 603, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004867417753553.

Awards

 * 2024 - Order of Australia.
 * 2023 - Margaret Tobin Oration, for contributions to psychiatry.
 * 2023 - Equally Well awards - Outstanding Team Effort.