Luis Salvador-Carulla is the professor of mental health and the Deputy Director of the Health Research Institute, University of Canberra. His main field of interest is decision analytics in complex health systems and policy with a special focus on mental health, ageing, disability and intellectual developmental disorders. He has been advisor to the NSW Mental Health Commission, the Spanish Ministry of Health, the European Commission (EC) and the World Health Organisation  (WHO). Among others, he coordinated the European Commission (EC) project eDESDE-LTC for the development of a digital European classification of services  for long term Care and he participated as national coordinator in the EC project Refinement to develop a toolkit for the assessment of financing of mental health systems. He has coordinated the Integrated Atlas of Mental Health Project for mapping mental health services in over 35 countries around the World. He received the Leon Eisenberg Award of the Harvard Medical School in 2012; the Tom Trauer Award Evaluation and Research Award in Australia in 2022, and the Research Excellence Award of the  University of Canberra in 2023.