Rosemary Purcell

Professor Rosemary Purcell is Director, Knowledge Translation at Orygen. She is also the Deputy Head of the Department of the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and a registered psychologist.

Rosie is also the Managing Editor of the journal Early Intervention in Psychiatry.

Rosie has co-authored over 150 publications in the areas of youth mental health, early intervention in forensic mental health, and mental health in elite sports. She is an investigator on a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant investigating the benefits of physical activity for young people with depression, and a member of the International Olympic Committee’s Elite Athlete Mental Health Consensus Group and the IOC’s Mental Health Translation Working Group.