Geoffrey M. Reed, PhD

  • Core Faculty
  • Director, Columbia-WHO Center for Global Mental Health
  • Professor of Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Geoffrey M. Reed, PhD has been a Professor of Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons since 2018 and Director of the Columbia – WHO Center for Global Mental Health since 2023. He has also been a Consultant to the Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization (WHO) for more than 15 years. He has worked extensively with the National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico, where he was a founder of the Center for Global Mental Health Research. He is a Level 3 Member (highest level) of the National System of Researchers, National Council of Science and Technology, Mexico.

Between 2008 and 2018, Dr. Reed was based at WHO in Geneva, Switzerland, where he led the development of the classification of mental, behavioural, and neurodevelopmental disorders for the Eleventh Revision of WHO’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). The ICD-11 was approved by the 72nd World Health Assembly in 2019 and has been the basis for health reporting by WHO’s 194 member states since 2022. Dr. Reed was project director for the development of the diagnostic manual for use by global health professionals in clinical settings, the Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Requirements for ICD-11 Mental, Behavioural and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (CDDR) throughout its entire development, from 2007 – 2024.

As a foundation of the ICD-11 development process, Dr. Reed directed a rigorous program of international field studies involving thousands of clinicians around the world and producing hundreds of research articles in top scientific journals. He founded and directed the WHO Global Clinical Practice Network, comprising more than 19,000 mental health and primary care professionals from 163 countries who have contributed directly to ICD-11 through participation in field studies and to other research effort such as the impact of COVID-19 on mental health professionals. He was Co-Chair of the 2021 American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Psychology and Health Equity. He has received numerous awards, including the Robert L. Spitzer, MD Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions to Nosology and Diagnosis in 2017 and the American Psychological Association Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology in 2021.

 

Key Publications:

  • Reed, G.M., Ritchie, P. L.-J., Maercker, A., & Rebello, T.J. (Eds.) (2024). A psychological approach to diagnosis: Using the ICD-11 as a framework. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association and International Union of Psychological Science. ISBN: 978-1433832680
  • Reed, G.M., Maré, K.T., First, M.B., Jaisoorya, T.S., Rao, G.N., Dawson-Squibb, J.-J., Lochner, C., van Ommeren, M., & Stein, D.J. (in press). The WHO Flexible Interview for ICD-11 (FLII-11). World Psychiatry. https://doi.org/ 10.1002/wps.21227
  • Kogan, C.S., Garcia-Pacheco, J.A., Rebello, T.J., Montoya, M.I., Robles, R., Khoury, B., Kulygina, M., Matsumoto, C., Huang, J., Medina-Mora, M.E., Gureje, O., Stein, D.J., Sharan, P., Gaebel, W., Kanba, S., Andrews, H.F., Roberts, M.C., Pike, K.M., Zhao, M., Ayuso-Mateos, J.L., Sadowska, K., Maré, K., Denny, K., & Reed, G.M. (2023). Longitudinal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress and occupational well-being of mental health professionals: An international study. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 26, 747-760. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijnp/pyad046
  • Presidential Task Force on Psychology and Health Equity (2023). Report of the American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Psychology and Health Equity. American Psychologist, 78, 259-267. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001125
  • Reed, G.M., First, M.B., Billieux, J., Cloitre, M., Briken, P., Achab, S., Brewin, C.R., King, D.L., Kraus, S.W., & Bryant, R.B. (2022). Emerging experience with selected new categories in the ICD-11: Complex PTSD, prolonged grief disorder, gaming disorder, and compulsive sexual behaviour disorder. World Psychiatry, 21, 189-213. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20960
  • Lemay, K.R., Kogan, C.S., Rebello, T., Keeley, J.W., Bhargava, R., Sharan, P., Sharma, M., Kommu, J.V.S., Kishore, M.T., Mari, J., Ginige, P., Buono, S., Recupero, M., Zingale, M., Zagaria, T., Cooray, S., Roy, A., & Reed, G.M. (2022). An international field study of the ICD-11 behavioural indicators for disorders of intellectual development. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 66, 376-391. https://doi.org/10.1111/jir.12924
  • First, M.B., Gaebel, W., Maj, M., Stein, D.J., Kogan, C.S., Saunders, J.B., Poznyak, V.B., Gureje, O., Lewis-Fernández, R., Maercker, A., Brewin, C.R., Cloitre, M., Claudino, A., Pike, K.M., Baird, G., Skuse, D., Krueger, R.B., Briken, P., Burke, J.D., Lochman, J.E., Evans, S.C., Woods, D.W., & Reed, G.M. (2021). An organization and category-level comparison of diagnostic requirements for mental disorders in ICD-11 and DSM-5. World Psychiatry, 20, 34-51 https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20825
  • Reed, G.M., First, M.B., Kogan, C.S., Hyman, S.E., Gureje,, O., Gaebel, W., Maj, M., Stein, D.J., Maercker, A., Tyrer, P., Claudino, A., Garralda, E., Salvador-Carulla, L., Ray, R., Saunders, J.B., Dua, T., Poznyak, V.,  Medina-Mora, M.E., Pike, K.M., Ayuso-Mateos, J.L., Kanba, S., Keeley, J.W., Khoury, B., Krasnov, V.N., Kulygina, M., Lovell, A.M., Mari, J.J., Maruta, T., Matsumoto, C., Rebello, T.J., Roberts, M.C., Robles, R., Sharan, P., Zhao, M., Jablensky, A., Udomratn, P., Rahimi-Movaghar, A., Rydelius, P.-A., Bährer-Kohler, S., Watts, A.D., & Saxena, S. (2019). Innovations and changes in the ICD-11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders. World Psychiatry, 18, 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20611
  • Reed, G.M., Sharan, P., Rebello, T.J., Keeley, J.W., Gureje, O., Ayuso-Mateos, J.L., Kanba, S., Khoury, B., Kogan, C.S., Krasnov, V.N., Maj, M., Mari, J. de J., Stein, D.S., Zhao, M., Akiyama, T., Andrews, H.F., Asevedo, E., Cheour, M., Domínguez-Martínez, T., El-Khoury, J., Fiorillo, A., Grenier, J., Gupta, N., Kola, L., Kulygina, M., Leal-Leturia, I., Luciano, M., Lusu, B., Martínez-López, J.N.I., Matsumoto, C., Odunleye, M., Onofa, L.U., Paterniti, S., Purnima, S., Robles, R., Sahu, M.K., Sibeko, G., Zhong, N., First, M.B., Gaebel, W., Lovell, A.M., Maruta, T., Pike, K.M., Roberts, M.C., & Medina-Mora, M.E. (2018). Clinical utility of ICD-11 diagnostic guidelines for high-burden mental disorders: Results from mental health settings in 13 countries. World Psychiatry, 17, 306-315. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20581
  • Reed, G.M., Sharan, P., Rebello, T.J., Keeley, J.W., Medina-Mora, M.E., Gureje, O., Ayuso-Mateos, J.L., Kanba, S., Khoury, B., Kogan, C.S., Krasnov, V.N., Maj, M., Mari, J. de J., Stein, D.S., Zhao, M., Akiyama, T., Andrews, H.F., Asevedo, E., Cheour, M., Domínguez-Martínez, T., El-Khoury, J., Fiorillo, A., Grenier, J., Gupta, N., Kola, L., Kulygina, M., Leal-Leturia, I., Luciano, M., Lusu, B., Martínez-López, J.N.I., Matsumoto, C., Onofa, L.U., Paterniti, S., Purnima, S., Robles, R., Sahu, M.K., Sibeko, G., Zhong, N., First, M.B., Gaebel, W., Lovell, A.M., Maruta, T., Roberts, M.C., & Pike, K.M. (2018). The ICD-11 developmental field study of reliability of diagnoses of high-burden mental disorders: Results among adult patients in mental health settings of 13 countries. World Psychiatry, 17, 174-186. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20524
  • Reed, G.M., Drescher, J., Krueger, R.B., Atalla, E., Cochran, S.D., First, M.B., Cohen-Kettenis, P.T., Arango-de Montis, I., Parish, S.J., Cottler, S., Briken, P., & Saxena, S. (2016). Disorders related to sexuality and gender identity in the ICD-11: Revising the ICD-10 classification based on current scientific evidence, best clinical practices, and human rights considerations. World Psychiatry, 15, 205-221. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20354
  • Robles, R., Fresán, A., Vega-Ramírez, H., Cruz-Islas, J., Rodríguez-Pérez, V., Domínguez-Martínez, T., & Reed, G.M. (2016). Removing transgender identity from the classification of mental disorders: A Mexican field study for ICD-11. Lancet Psychiatry, 3, 850-859. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30165-1
  • Cochran, S.D., Drescher, J., Kismödi, E., Giami, A., García-Moreno, C., Atalla, E., Marais, A., Vieira, E.M., & Reed, G.M. (2014). Proposed declassification of disease categories related to sexual orientation in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11). Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 92, 672-679. https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.14.135541
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