and policy Gureje was a member of the International Advisory Group for the revision of the Chapter on Mental and Behavioural Disorders of 10th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) and was Chair of the Workgroup on Somatic Distress and Dissociative Disorders, Chair of the Workgroup on Cultural Guidance and Vice-Chair, Field Studies Coordinating Group. These activities were undertaken as part of the development of the ICD-11 which was adopted for global use by the WHO in May 2019. Gureje has been active in global mental health for several decades. He is a member of the Executive of the World Mental Health Surveys Initiative. He is a member of an international group of experts which produced the 2007 Lancet Global Mental Health series and is a founding member of the Movement for Global Mental Health. He is a member of the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era where he co-chaired the WorkGroup on Ethics. He was the Principal Investigator in the NIMH-funded Partnerships for Mental Health Development in Sub-Sahara Africa project, which included the conduct of the first randomized controlled trial of a collaborative shared care for psychosis between traditional/faith healers and conventional. He has been involved in activities focused on strengthening mental health service development in low- and middle-income countries and chairs the National Mental Health Action Committee, a policy think-tank of the Nigeria Federal Ministry of Health. Through his work on mhLAP, he has supported policy and service development in Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia. He was, between 2001 and 2003, a member of the World Health Organization Alcohol Policy and Strategy Advisory Committee and, in 2009, was the convener of the WHO/WPA Policy Roundtable on Scaling-up of Mental Health Service in Africa attended by ministers of health or their representatives from several Sub-Saharan African countries. Awards Gureje is a recipient of grants and endowments from several global bodies such as the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council (UK), Grand Challenges Canada, CBM Australia, European Union, International Development Research Center, the US National Institute of Mental Health, the Global Forum for Health Research and the World Health Organization. He is an Honorary Member of the World Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science, a recipient of the Osun State award and of Nigeria's highest award for academic achievement, the Nigeria National Order of Merit. References Prof.