Our Advisory Board 

Pat is the joint founder and Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and an Academic Director of the MA in Family Support Studies at NUI Galway. He holds the prestigious UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement, the first to be awarded in the Republic of Ireland. He has worked with and for families as a practitioner, service manager and academic for over 20 years, and completed an extensive body of research on family issues and published in a wide range of academic publications. 

Xiangming is Professor and Director of the Center for Health Economics and Policy at China Agricultural University. He also holds a joint appointment in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University. Prior to this, he served as a Senior Health Economist with the Division of Violence Prevention at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He serves on four journal editorial boards, including the International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice. Previous awards/honours include the Paula and Gregory Chow Best Paper Award by the Chinese Economists Society, the Kaafee Billah Memorial Award from the CDC, recognition for the Most Cited Paper from the journal Child Abuse & Neglect, and the Best of UNICEF Research award from UNICEF Innocenti. 

Peter is Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL and former Chief Executive of Anna Freud; Senior Clinical Advisor on Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services (CYMPH) NHSE; Director of Mental Health and Behaviour Change, UCL Partners Academic Health Sciences Network; and holds visiting professorships at Yale and Harvard Medical Schools. He has published over 640 scientific papers, 290 chapters and is the author or co-author of 21 books.

Alice is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University. Her research focuses on perinatal mental health and the effects of early adversity on brain development and risk for mental health disorders. She published the first study using functional MRI to understand the developing brain in the context of family conflict. She is a founding member of the Fetal Infant and Toddler Neuroimaging Group and a Principal Investigator on the Healthy Brain and Child Development Study, a national effort across the USA.