Rate My Professor Kate Scott

A senior investigator in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys Initiative, Professor Scott has contributed to household epidemiologic surveys of mental disorders in over 30 countries. Her research focuses on psychiatric epidemiology, mental-physical comorbidity, health psychology, cross-national psychiatric epidemiology, the inter-relationship between mental and physical disorders, and gender differences in mental disorders. Funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand, the James Hume Bequest Fund, and the NZ Lotteries Board, her influential publications include "Trauma and PTSD in the WHO world mental health surveys" (2017), "Mental disorders among college students in the World Health Organization world mental health surveys" (2016), "The epidemiology of traumatic event exposure worldwide: results from the World Mental Health Survey Consortium" (2016), and recent WMH papers on treatment predictors and barriers (2025). She received the University of Otago Health Research Excellence Award for Research Publication in 2016 and delivered her Inaugural Professorial Lecture in 2015. Professor Scott has served on the University of Otago Human Ethics Committee (Health), as Executive Committee Member of the WHO WMH Surveys Initiative, and as Chair and Member of Health Research Council Science Assessing Committees, advancing global understanding of mental health epidemiology.