The Professor Vera Morgan Medal for Mental Health Epidemiology

Named after Professor Vera Morgan an inspiring, influential and leading Australian Mental Health Epidemiologist and former ASPR (SMHR) President. This award will be for an outstanding contribution to mental health epidemiology. Nominations from the award can come either from the individual being nominated or any member of SMHR can nominate someone that they believe deserves the award. 

Selection criteria: 

• The award is evaluated by a panel of the SMHR Executive Committee. The award will be judged based upon the CV of the nominated individual and answers in the sections below. The award recognises the contribution of the individual nominated to mental health epidemiology and takes into consideration the excellence of their research, the impact that this work has had, and their leadership and contribution to mental health research in Australia and New Zealand.
• The nominated individual must be a paid-up member of SMHR by the closing date for the award.  
• SMHR Executive Committee members are not eligible for this award while they are on the committee. 

Details of the award: The award includes a certificate which will be presented at the SMHR 2025 Conference, $1000 travel support (contingent on attendance) as well as complimentary conference registration. The awardee will be featured on the SMHR website.