John Weisz, PhD, is the Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He is also a Professor with the Harvard Medical School. He leads the Harvard Lab for Youth Mental Health, developing and testing psychotherapy programs for child and adolescent mental health problems. He and his lab also conduct meta-analyses to describe and improve the science of youth mental health care.

Dr. Weisz served for eight years as President and CEO of the Judge Baker Children’s Center, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. He has more than 500 publications, including ten books about child and adolescent mental health, and his work has generated more than 66,000 citations. His scientific awards include the Klaus-Grawe Award for the Advancement of Innovative Research in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, from the Klaus-Grawe Foundation; the Sarah Gund Prize for Research and Mentorship in Child Mental Health, from the Scientific Research Council, Child Mind Institute; and the James McKeen Cattell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Psychological Science—APS’s highest honor—for work that, according to APS, “has had a profound impact on the field of psychological science over the past quarter century.”