Professor John McGrath

John McGrath is a psychiatrist interested in discovering the causes of serious mental disorders. He is has affiliations with the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, the Queensland Brain Institute (University of Queensland), and the National Centre for Register-based Research (Aarhus University) Denmark.  His research aims to generate and evaluate nongenetic risk factors for schizophrenia.  He has forged productive cross-disciplinary collaborations linking risk factor epidemiology with developmental neurobiology (e.g. using animal models to explore candidate exposures). He has supervised major systematic reviews of the incidence, prevalence and mortality of schizophrenia. He has led register-based studies detailing patterns of comorbidity related to mental disorders. He was awarded a John Cade Fellowship by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, and a Niels Bohr Professorship by the Danish National Research Foundation. He has been awarded the Erik Stromgren Medal and the Lieber Prize for Outstanding Schizophrenia Research.