Srividya Iyer is a Psychologist, an Associate Professor at McGill University and a Researcher at the Douglas Research Centre in Montreal, Canada. She is the Vice President of the International Association for Youth Mental Health. Her work focuses on youth mental health and early intervention, including serious mental health problems such as psychosis. Her vision is that more youth have timely access to high-quality, youth-friendly mental healthcare and enjoy well-being and purpose. She supports mental health capacity-building and partners with youth, families, and communities to influence practice and policy in Canada and globally. She leads ACCESS Open Minds, a pan-Canadian network of 250+ diverse stakeholders serving urban, rural, Indigenous, post-secondary and homeless youths at 16 sites. She has received numerous awards and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists and named on the inaugural list of Canadian Women leaders in Global Health.