World Schizophrenia Awareness Day 2024
Professor Chris Langmead, Director of the Neuromedicines Discovery Centre
24 May 2024
On World Schizophrenia Awareness Day, Professor Chris Langmead, Director of the Neuromedicines Discovery Centre, highlighted the urgent need for new safe and effective medicines to treat schizophrenia, a mental health condition that affects more than 20 million people worldwide.
Australia has a growing number of leaders across drug development, psychiatry, psychology and public health, with the combined expertise to not only address the societal issue of severe mental illness, but also to place Australia at the forefront of this field.
On World Schizophrenia Awareness Day, we would do well to reflect on what Australia can - and should - do for those with this most-challenging of health conditions.