Professor Scott Weich, Chair of Psychiatry in the Warwick Medical School, has been invited to join the Medical Research Council’s Neurosciences and Mental Health Board. The appointment begins in April 2005.

Scott’s main research interests include the socio-economic and contextual determinants of anxiety and depression and the primary care of these conditions. His current projects include: an evaluation of the effects of an urban regeneration programme in North London on the mental health of local residents, a population-based study of socio-economic and geographical variation in rates of common mental disorders in Britain and a national study of the treatment of depression in primary care.