Russell Roberts is Professor of Management and Leadership at Charles Sturt University with a focus on mental health. He is National Director of Equally Well Australia (tasked to oversee the national implementation actions of the National Consensus Statement to improve the physical health of people living with mental illness) and Chair of the Equally Well Symposium. He is Chair of the Australian Rural and Remote Mental Health Symposium, a Chief Investigator on the Rural Universities Network mental health research collaborative, on the board of the ANZ Mental Health Association and Clinical Associate Professor at University of Sydney. Russell has extensive experience as a researcher having published over 100 refereed journal articles, books and book chapters, 70 conference presentations, 18 keynote speeches, with $12.725m in research grant funding and over 4,750 citations of his research work.