Matias Irarrazaval is a child and adolescent psychiatrist from Chile and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Chile. He earned a Master of Public Health in Health and Social Behavior from Harvard School of Public Health and did a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Child Language and Developmental Psychiatry Lab, Judge Baker Children’s Center– Harvard Medical School, Boston USA. His research interests fall mainly in the field of prevention and early interventions in mental disorders and global health, and he is a IEA member.