Anne Crocker, PhD, Canada Research Chair in Mental Health, Justice and Safety is Full professor at the department of psychiatry & addictions and at the School of criminology of the Université de Montréal, Director of Research and Academics at the Philippe-Pinel Institute, Guest professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and past-president of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services. In 2023, she was inducted as fellow to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the Université de Montréal and a post-doctoral degree in mental health services from Dartmouth Medical School, New Hampshire, U.S.A. She has been a member of the IAFMHS since its inception in 2001. She sits on many forensic mental health policy advisory committees, has presented a parliamentary commissions and coroners’ inquests. Professor Crocker’s research program, continuously funded through Federal and Provincial grants for the past 25 years, focuses on circumscribing issues and specific needs related persons with mental illness’ interactions with the justice system; characterizing their use of services; analyzing the effects of legislative mechanisms related to the access to, organization and delivery of services; and documenting the barriers and facilitators of post-criminalisation community integration. Over the past 15 years, Professor Crocker has been leading the Canadian National Trajectory Project of individuals found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder.