Dr. Mark Ferro is the Canada Research Chair in Youth Mental Health and a Professor in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. After earning his PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Western University in 2011, he completed postdoctoral training in Child Psychiatry at McMaster University. He has received nearly $5M in research funding as Principal Investigator, published over 250 peer-reviewed papers, and delivered over 50 invited talks.From 2020-22, Dr. Ferro was the President of the Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Ferro is the Deputy Editor of Child: Care, Health and Development and serves on the editorial board for the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. He has received numerous distinctions including the Distinguished Service Award from the Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, and Brain Star Award from CIHR. In 2018, he was inducted as a Fellow of the American Psychopathological Association.Dr. Ferro’s research program takes a life-course approach to understand the intersection between physical and mental health, with specific focus on the determinants, mechanisms, and outcomes associated with child multimorbidity, as well the measurement of mental and psychosocial health in children