Helen Minnis is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow. She has had a longstanding clinical and research focus on the psychiatric problems of abused and neglected children.  She is running several randomised controlled trials of interventions for abused and neglected children, including a trial investigating the cost-effectiveness of an infant mental health service for young children in foster care, and another of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy for primary school-aged children in adoptive or foster placements. She is collaborating with computing science colleagues to develop Artificial Intelligence approaches to the assessment of parent – child interaction, and she is also conducting behavioural genetic research focussed on the role of abuse and neglect and its overlap with neurodevelopment across the life-course.  She has collaborations with colleagues at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London, the Universities of Aalborg and Aarhus, Denmark and with the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Helen was made a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2022. She is also Chair of the Child Mental Health group of the NIHR Translational Research Collaborative. She is a member of the MRC Developmental Pathways Funding Stream panel. Helen has >£5 million in current grants as Principle Investigator.

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