Mao Sheng Ran

Mao-Sheng Ran is Vice Director of Institute of Psychiatry, Director of Department of Social Psychiatry, and Professor of Psychiatry at Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China. He took undergraduate and Master degrees at West China University of Medical Sciences and a PhD at The University of Hong Kong. He is chair of Culture, Stigma and Discrimination Group and co-chair of Cultural Psychiatry and the COVID-19 Virus Pandemic Group, World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WACP), board member of World Psychiatric Association-Transcultural Psychiatry Section (WPA-TPS), and associate director of Ethnic Psychology and Mental Health Group and Psychosocial Service Research Group, Chinese Society of Psychiatry, Chinese Medical Association (CMA-CSP). He is founder and principal investigator of Chengdu Mental Health Project (CMHP), a longitudinal mental health project in China. Major research interests: Socio-cultural psychiatry, Community mental health services, Stigma and discrimination, Psychosocial intervention, Psychiatric epidemiology, Disaster events and mental health, and Suicide. He has received numerous research grants (e.g., World Health Organization, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, General Research Fund, Public Policy Research Funding Scheme, and American Foundation for Suicide Prevention) and research Awards (e.g., Alexander Gralnick Award by American Association of Suicidology). He has published over 220 peer-reviewed papers and 11 books/chapters.