Holly Erskine

Holly E. Erskine, BPsySc (Hons), is a research associate with the Psychiatric Epidemiology and Burden of Disease (PEABOD) Group based at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research (QCMHR) in Queensland, Australia. She holds an affiliate position with the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland (Queensland, Australia) and is an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

Holly’s focus within PEABOD is the epidemiology and burden of mental disorders in children and youth. As part of this, she has provided expertise to the Australian Young Minds Matter survey. Holly’s role as an affiliate of IHME centers around the Global Burden of Disease Study, for which she is responsible for the systematic review, data extraction, and epidemiological modeling of conduct disorder, ADHD, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, autism, and Asperger’s syndrome. She is in the final year of her PhD, which focuses on the global epidemiology and burden of conduct disorder and ADHD.