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Oye Gureje
Oye Gureje, FAS, FNAMed, NNOM (born in 1952) is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Ibadan,Nigeria and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Neurosciences, Drug and Alcohol Abuse in the institution[1] https://www.com.ui.edu.ng/index.php/prof-oyewusi-gureje.He is also Consultant Psychiatrist at the University College Hospital, Ibadan and a Professor Extraordinary at the Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is best known for his work on epidemiology, psychiatric nosology and global mental health and as one of the leading voices on mental health service and policy development in Africa.

Early Education
Born Oyewusi Gureje in Ilesa, Osun State, Nigeria, he studied Medicine at the University of Benin, Nigeria and did residency in neuropsychiatry at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Abeokuta, Nigeria and Withington Hospital, Manchester. He completed a Diploma and an MSc in psychiatry at the University of Manchester, UK and, in 1993, a PhD in neuropsychiatry under the supervision of Professor B.O. Osuntokun (title of thesis: "The nosological status of schizophrenia”) at the University of Ibadan and, in 2004, became the second person to obtain the higher doctorate of Doctor of Science of the same university.

Career
Gureje has been teaching at the University of Ibadan as well as being a consultant psychiatrist at the University College Hospital since 1989. He was the Head of the Department of Psychiatry in both institutions in 1999 – 2003 and 2007 -2011. He established, in 2010, the Mental Health Leadership and Advocacy Programme (mhLAP) in the institution[6] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24467884/. He coordinates the training workshop on the Programme and teaches courses on global mental health. The pioneering programme has trained mental health specialists, service users and carers, leaders of civil society organizations as well policy makers from across 12 sub-Sahara African countries in mental health leadership and advocacy skills and helped to form advocacy groups for mental health service development in the five West African anglophone countries[7] https://www.acu.ac.uk/the-acu-review/closing-the-gap/. Gureje also helped design a similar programme, the Eastern Mediterranean Leadership in Mental Health course, at the American University in Cairo and has conducted annual teaching on the course since its launch in 2016. Gureje was President of the Association of Psychiatrists in Nigeria (2005 – 2009)[8] https://apn.org.ng/and of the African Association of Psychiatrists and Allied Professions (2009 – 2014)[9] https://uia.org/s/or/en/1100068548.He was a Board member of the World Psychiatric Association (2005 – 2008), Chair of its Task Force on Brain Drain (2007 – 2008) and has also served the Association as a member of several committees and working groups including those on Education, Review and Ethics, Stigmatization, and Comorbidity[10] https://www.wpanet.org/wg-on-comorbidity. He chairs the National Mental Health Action Committee, a policy think-tank of the Nigeria Federal Ministry of Health, in which role he has led the development of the country’s current mental health policy and in activities to develop modern mental health legislation for the country and has served on national Expert Technical or Advisory Committees on non-communicable diseases and COVID-19.He is Senior Associate Editor of Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Epidemiology and of the International Review of Psychiatry.

Global mental health
Gureje has been active in global mental health policy and service development for several decades. He served on the International Advisory Group for the revision of the Chapter on Mental and Behavioural Disorders of 10th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) between 2007 and 2018 during which time he was Chair of the Work Group on Somatic Distress and Dissociative Disorders, Chair of the Workgroup on Cultural Guidance and Vice-Chair, Field Studies Coordinating Group. These activities led to the development of a new category of Bodily Distress Disorder[11] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5032513/[12] https://journals.lww.com/co-psychiatry/Abstract/2015/09000/Classification_of_somatic_syndromes_in_ICD_11.3.aspx,and the reformulation of the group of Dissociative Disorders and were undertaken as part of the development of the ICD-11 which was adopted for global use by the WHO in May 2019 and were preceded by many years of involvement in cross-national research on pain and somatoform disorders[13] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17570586/[14] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9669787/[15] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9210751/. Gureje is a member of the Executive of the World Mental Health Surveys Initiative, a member of the international group of experts which produced the 2007 Lancet Global Mental Health series [16] https://www.thelancet.com/series/global-mental-healthand is a founding member of the Movement for Global Mental Health[17] http://www.globalmentalhealth.org/.He is also a member of the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era where he co-chaired the WorkGroup on Ethics[18] https://www.hqsscommission.org/people/oye-gureje/.Through his work on mhLAP, he has supported policy and service development in Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia[22] http://sdg.iisd.org/commentary/guest-articles/implementation-case-study-on-sdg-targets-3-4-and-3-c-a-regional-approach-to-mental-health-is-influencing-change-in-west-africa/ [23] https://enablingaccesstomentalhealthsl.wordpress.com/partners/mhlap/[24] http://www.oasismedicalconsult.com/2017/09/05/hello-world/[25] https://sunurew.weebly.com/health1/gambia-adopt-who-guideline-on-mental-health[26]https://allafrica.com/stories/201905030679.html. He was, between 2001 and 2003, a member of the World Health Organization Alcohol Policy and Strategy Advisory Committee and, in 2009, was the convener of the WHO/WPA Policy Roundtable on scaling-up of mental health service in Africa attended by ministers of health or their representatives from several Sub-Saharan African countries.

Research
Oye Gureje has published more than 500 peer-reviewed scientific papers, monographs, book chapters, and other report. Regarded as one of Nigeria’s preeminent academics[2] https://pharmanewsonline.com/oyewusi-gureje-the-genius-of-psychiatry-and-psychology/[3]https://www.afriscitech.com/en/blogs/olumide-odeyemi/1067-who-is-the-most-influential-researcher-in-nigeria, he has, for several years, been listed among the global highly-cited researchers.[4] https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/highly-cited-researchers-2021-executive-summary/,[5] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32861306/ He has conducted research on the epidemiology of mental disorders across the lifespan, on aging, dementia and on the development of interventions to expand mental health care in frontline settings. He was the Principal Investigator of the NIMH-funded Partnerships for Mental Health Development in Sub-Sahara Africa project[19] https://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/organization/cgmhr/globalhubs/partnership-for-mental-health-development-in-sub-saharan-africa-pam-d, which included the conduct of the first randomized controlled trial of a collaborative shared care for psychosis between traditional/faith healers and conventional health providers in Ghana and Nigeria [20] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32861306/. He also led the EXPONATE project, funded by Grand Challenges Canada, exploring the effectiveness of an intervention for mothers with depression the findings of which were published in a prize-winning paper [21]https://twitter.com/thebjpsych/status/1283002917851738112?s=09.

Awards and Honors
Gureje is a recipient of grants from several global bodies such as the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council (UK), Grand Challenges Canada, CBM Australia, European Union, International Development Research Center, the US National Institute of Mental Health, the Global Forum for Health Research and the World Health Organization. He is an Honorary Member of the World Psychiatric Association[27] https://www.wpanet.org/special-members, the first psychiatrist to be elected a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science[28]https://nas.org.ng/all-fellows/, aFellow of the Nigerian Academy of Medicine, a recipient of the Osun State Merit Award, and of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Ibadan College of Medicine Alumni Association. He was conferred with Nigeria's highest award for academic achievement, the Nigerian National Order of Merit in 2008 by the country’s President.[29]https://nas.org.ng/all-fellows/ [30]https://nas.org.ng/all-fellows/.