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Graham Thornicroft is Professor of Community Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry. He is one of the foremost scientific figures in the fields of community psychiatry and mental health services research. He has developed a rigorous approach to the areas of needs assessment, standardised outcome measures, and cost-effectiveness evaluations of mental health services and treatments. His work on outcome measurement has led to the development of a series of new standardised measures of need, for example the Camberwell Assess,emt of Need, the Camberwell Assessment of need for Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities and the Camberwell Assessment of Need for the Elderly – abbreviated to CAN, CANDID and CANE and no doubt this audience can work out which is which. These tools have been translated into 15 languages. Professor Thorneycroft has also led the development of of evaluation of cost-effectiveness of mental health services, increasingly by using randomised controlled trials. This approach has been used to assess home treatment teams, interventions for black patients with mental illness and interventions for patients with both psychotic disorders and substance misuse. Professor Thornicroft's leadership in evidence-based medicine was recognised when he was invited by the Secretary of State for Health to chair the National Service Framework for Mental Health External Reference Group. Currently he is playing a leading role in establishing the new Mental Health Research Network for England and has led the development of consumer involvement in research.