psycho-social disabilities. Alongside Professor Norman Sartorius, Thornicroft is also the Co-Founder of The INDIGO Network, an international collaboration of researchers working to assess the global impact of discrimination against people with mental health conditions with colleagues in over 40 countries worldwide. He is the Director of the National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) in South London. Mental health policy Thornicroft Co-Chaired the External Reference Group to create the National Service Framework for Mental Health in England. Published in 1999, this is a 10-year national mental health plan that transformed the provision of mental health care in England. Stigma and discrimination research In 2006, Graham published Shunned: Discrimination against People with Mental Illness and the book won the British Medical Association Award for Best Mental Health Book of the Year. With Professor Norman Sartorius, he established the INDIGO Network, a research collaboration in over 40 countries developing evidence about reducing mental illness related stigma and discrimination. In collaboration with colleagues he has published over 140 scientific papers on stigma and discrimination, including papers from the evaluation of Time to Change, the national programme to reduce stigma and discrimination in England. Global mental health Graham Co-Chaired the Guidelines Development Group for the World Health Organisation Mental Health Global Action Plan (mhGAP) Implementation Guide. The guidelines have been implemented in over 100 countries. In 2014, Graham and Nicole Votruba coordinated the FundaMentalSDG initiative which contributed to the adoption of mental health related targets and indicators within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Graham is a member of an international group of experts which produced the 2007 Lancet Global Mental Health series aiming to 'highlight the gaps in mental-health services worldwide, and to formulate a clear call to action'. In 2018, he was one of the four editors of The Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development. Thornicroft was a Principal Investigator of the Community Psycho Social Intervention (COPSI) study in India, a Welcome Trust randomized controlled trial of community mental health teams in Chennai, Goa and Maharashtra. He has also led the Emerald Programme (Emerging Mental Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries), funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. In 2017, the project results were presented in the House of Commons in London. Awards Graham has received more than 170 research funding awards, to a total value of over £130 million. In 2009, Graham