WHO International Advisory Group for the Revision of ICD-10 Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Terms of Reference
The Advisory Group has the primary task of advising WHO in all steps leading to the revision of mental and behavioural disorders in ICD-10 in line with the overall revision process. The specific functions of the Advisory Group are as follows:
1. To assist WHO in identifying the steps involved in the revision and testing of ICD-10 for Mental and Behavioural Disorders.
2. To advise WHO on constitution and monitoring of working groups to undertake generation of necessary evidence, develop proposals for changes and to focus on specific issue as needed.
3. To assist WHO in identifying appropriate representatives of various stakeholders and in establishing and maintaining effective collaboration/consultative mechanisms.
4. To advise WHO in developing the various drafts of the revision of ICD-10 Chapter on Mental and Behavioural Disorders in line with the overall production timeline of ICD-11.
5. To assist WHO in identifying, reviewing, and synthesizing the global scientific and professional literature that should be considered in the revision.
6. To assist WHO in developing protocols for and in implementing field trials and other studies to generate evidence/experience with proposed changes in diagnostic codes/categories/criteria in line with the overall field trials process.
7. To advise WHO in finalizing the revisions in the ICD-10 Chapter on Mental and Behavioural Disorders for clearance by WHO's Governing Bodies.
List of Members
Chair
Steven Hyman, Office of the Provost, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Members:
José Luís Ayuso-Mateos, Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Alan Flisher, Adolescent Health Research Institute, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
Wolfgang Gaebel, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Heinrich-Heine University, Rheinische Kliniken Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Oye Gureje, Department of Psychiatry, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
Assen Jablensky, Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, Adult and Clinical Psychiatry, Royal Perth Hospital, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
Brigitte Khoury, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Psychiatry Department, Beirut, Lebanon
Anne Lovell, Centre de Recherche Psychotropes, Santé Mentale, et Société, Institute National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France
Maria Elena Medina-Mora, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente, México, DF, Mexico
Afarin Rahimi, Epidemiology and Prevention Department, Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies,Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Norman Sartorius, Geneva, Switzerland
Pratap Sharan, Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Pichet Udomratn, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand
Xiao Zeping, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai, China
Organizational Representatives:
International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions:
Per-anders Rydelius, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
International Union of Psychological Science:
Ann D. Watts, Entabeni Hospital, Durban, South Africa
International Council of Nurses:
Tesfamicael Ghebrehiwet, International Council of Nurses, Geneva, Switzerland
International Federation of Social Workers:
Sabine Bährer-Kohler, International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), Basel, Switzerland.
World Organization of National Colleges, Academies, and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians (WONCA):
Michael Klinkman, University of Michigan Depression Center, Ann Arbor, MI USA
World Psychiatric Association:
Mario Maj, Institute of Psychiatry, University of Naples, Naples, Italy
WHO Secretariat:
Benedetto Saraceno
Shekhar Saxena
Geoffrey Reed