It’s our pleasure to announce the shortlist of nominees for the 2025 ACAMH Awards.
To be nominated for an ACAMH Award is a prestigious recognition of those that are on the forefront of the development of kid and adolescent psychological well being analysis and observe. The usual of this yr’s nominations was very good and the Awards will probably be introduced at a digital ceremony in October 2025.
Congratulations to all of the 2025 nominees.
Educator Award
David Cottrell ‘Training of CAMH Professionals’
Nomination standards: Somebody who has had a big influence upon the schooling or coaching of kid and adolescent psychological well being professionals. That is open to all disciplines, however schooling or coaching should relate to youngsters’s psychological well being.
- Dr. Bettina Hohnen, Personal observe and UCL
- Mr. Kenneth Nathan, Interventions Plus
- Dr. Kiran Nijabat, Household Wellness Apply
- Dr. Victor Pereira-Sanchez, Columbia College
- Ms. Angela Taylor, Supporting Neighborhood Collectively
Digital Innovation Awards
Analysis on Digital Influence
Nomination standards: A researcher who has revealed the most effective paper on an data/knowledge/IT/digital matter regarding little one and adolescent psychological well being, which may embrace on-line evaluation improvements.
- Bach Le, Excessive Schooler Tells Excessive Schoolers
- The Co-CAT Examine Workforce, College of Oxford
- Professor Harriet Over, College of York
- Dr. Gabriela Pavarini, College of Oxford
- Professor Kapil Sayal, Psychological Well being and Scientific Neurosciences, College of Medication, College of Nottingham
Digital Intervention
Nomination standards: A clinician who has put proof base into observe inside the data/knowledge/IT/digital fields of kid and adolescent psychological well being. This could possibly be using data or applied sciences within the supply of care or service design and so on.
- Mr. John Campbell-O’Brien, ANP ADHD Pathway, HSE CAMHS, Built-in Well being Areas of Dublin North County and Dublin North Metropolis and West
- Dr. Eleanor Leigh, College of Oxford
- Mrs. Helen McGlinchey, Northpoint
- Professor John Weisz, Harvard Lab for Youth Psychological Well being
Analysis Into Apply
Eric Taylor ‘Translational Analysis Into Apply’
Nomination standards: A person with a sustained contribution to translating analysis into observe over quite a lot of years, whose work entails each analysis, and both medical or instructional involvement in observe. And/or a researcher or clinician who has revealed translational science (proof base into observe) with proof of influence on medical service provision. This might contain the institution of latest interventions, or enchancment of present ones, with proof of influence on medical service provision.
- Dr. Anna Basu, Newcastle College and Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Basis Belief
- Professor Cathy Creswell, College of Oxford
- Professor David Daley, Nottingham Trent College
- Dr. Hanni Flaherty, Yeshiva College & Hanni Flaherty, LCSW PC
- Professor Charles Hulme, Oxford Brookes College
Rising Star Award
Kathy Sylva ‘Rising Star’ Award
Nomination standards: Please be aware that this award can’t be self nominated. Open to any one that has made a big scientific contribution to little one and adolescent psychological well being literature, inside 10 years of their first peer reviewed journal publication.
- Dr. Josefien Breedvelt, King’s Faculty London
- Dr. Chloe Chessell, College of Oxford
- Mr. Charles Ganaprakasam, Ministry of Training
- Dr. Anna Gui, College of Rome Tor Vergata
- Dr. Alex Kwong, College of Edinburgh
- Dr. Gonzalo Salazar De Pablo, King’s Faculty London
- Dr. Xinxin Zhu, College of Edinburgh
Workforce Awards
Lionel Hersov Memorial Award
Nomination standards: A observe staff that has demonstrated using proof base (analysis, audit or service analysis) into medical observe. Or a staff that has evaluated the result or measures both the medical influence or demonstrated high quality enchancment (will be efficiencies of time, cash or lowered ‘waste’). The nominations will probably be accepted from researchers, investigators, clinicians, and educationalists.
- Little Warriors, Be Courageous Ranch, Canada
- Plymouth Multi-Company Ecotherapy Collective, Plymouth Metropolis Council
- RE-STAR Tutorial Researchers (Ars) and its Youth Researcher Panel (Y-RP), Kings, UCL, Anna Freud and Central
- Younger Individuals’s Psychological Well being Analysis Centre, Pennine Care NHS Basis Belief
- The Instructional Psychology Service, States of Guernsey
Modern Analysis, Coaching or Apply in Low and Center Earnings Nations (LMICs)
Nomination standards: Workforce based mostly in a rustic labeled by the World Financial institution as LMICs* within the previous yr, and whose work contain analysis, medical or instructional actions in that nation. The work exhibits innovation in analysis, coaching, or observe/service supply in little one and adolescent psychological well being.
- Psychological Wellbeing and Sports activities (MeWeSports), Sangath, India
- Nambikai Nilayam, Little one and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit, Division of Psychiatry, Christian Medical Faculty Vellore India
- Ndinewe Basis, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Pakistan Affiliation of Cognitive Therapists and DilKiBaat
- The College Initiative for Psychological Well being Advocacy (SIMHA), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
- The Social Smarts Workforce, DevHub Middle for Intervention, Philippines
- RCPsych & GCPS CAP Module Workforce, Royal Faculty of Psychiatrists, Glasgow and Ghana
* Eligible international locations; Afghanistan, Angola, Algeria, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Micronesia, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Financial institution and Gaza, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Different awards to be shortlists to be introduced:
- Postgraduate Analysis Trainee of the Yr
- Scientific Trainee of the Yr
- Analysis Trainee of the Yr
- Little one and Adolescent Psychological Well being Journal Finest Paper
- Journal of Little one Psychology and Psychiatry Journal Finest Paper
- JCPP Advances Finest Paper
