Ricardo Duarte Miranda de Gusmão (MD, Psych, MSc, PhD, Hab) completed a medical degree at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra (FMUC) in 1989 and a master's degree in mental health at Nova Medical School (NMS) of the Nova University in Lisbon in 1997, followed by a doctorate in medicine, specialty psychiatry and mental health, in 2006, also at NMS, both developed under the supervision of José Miguel Caldas de Almeida. Since 2022, he has had a habilitation degree in medical sciences in psychiatry and mental health, obtained at Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS) at the University of Porto. He completed basic general medical training in Hospitais Civis in Lisbon in 1991. He completed psychiatric training at Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Ocidental between 1992 and 1996, where he worked as a psychiatrist until 2022. During his 30-year career as a general psychiatrist, he was engaged in liaison work and community psychiatry, having led several multidisciplinary community mental health teams (CMHT) and a general hospital liaison psychiatry unit (LP). Now a mainstay of standard psychiatric specialized care, CMHT, and LP were state-of-the-art in Portugal until very recently. He was an Invited Auxiliary Professor of Psychiatry at NMS from 2007 to 2014, where he led different European Communities (EC) funded projects coordinating the Lab on Affective Disorders and Suicide Prevention integrated into Centro para o Estudo de Doenças Crónicas (CEDOC). Since 2019, he has been an Invited Auxiliary Professor of Mental Health, coordinating a second cycle curricular unit at the Medical Faculty of Porto University (FMUP). He is a principal investigator and coordinates the Mental Health Literacy (MHL), Wellbeing, Depression, and Suicide Prevention Lab at the Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR) integrated by EPIUnit, Institute of Public Health, University of Porto (ISPUP). The Lab specializes in public mental health and MHL, involving large-scale interventions and exploring determinants within a science of implementation framework. Notably, the impact of MHL on mental health outcomes and in understanding success factors of scalable implementation of community-based programs aiming at the promotion of mental health and the prevention of depression, other common mental disorders, and suicide. The Lab has partnerships with national and international research centers, leading to frequent collaboration, and since 2022, it has been involved in three EC-funded HORIZON projects: MentBest, EARLY, and ProsperH. He has made over 100 communications at scientific meetings, mostly invited, and published over 50 papers, mainly in Q1 peer-reviewed journals. He is an associate editor on public mental health for Frontiers journals Psychiatry and Public Health. His research has been funded by FCT, the Directorate General of Health (DGS), the EEA Grants, EC CHAFEA, the EC 7th Framework Programme, and HORIZON 2022. He has been a recognized clinical and scientific expert on mood disorders, suicide, mental health services organizations, liaison psychiatry, mental health in primary care, and MHL. As such, he has trained resident doctors in psychiatry and public health internships and oriented master's and PhD thesis. Equally, he has been involved in numerous task groups for international bodies, firms, and national government agencies and has spoken and written for the reference media. At present, he is a member of the working party for the Ministry of Health's National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. He was a founder and chapter member of the European Alliance Against Depression (EAAD) since 2006. He has been the president of the national MHL NGO EUTIMIA since 2013. He is now president of the Suicidology and Suicide Prevention section of the Psychiatry and Mental Health Portuguese Society (SPPSM) and the national representative of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP).