Anna Depukat, MD, PhD
A physician and Doctor of Medical Sciences, specialist in adult psychiatry, currently undergoing specialization in child and adolescent psychiatry. She combines many years of clinical practice with managerial experience and expert activity in the field of mental health care. She works at the University Hospital in Kraków, where she serves, among others, as Head of the Section for Medical Documentation Quality and Implementation Process Support, and coordinates standards for the protection of minors. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at the Jagiellonian University Medical College, holds a PhD in medical sciences, and is a graduate of an MBA in Healthcare program.
She has held managerial and executive positions in psychiatric institutions, including leading the Office for the Pilot Program of the National Mental Health Protection Program at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw, where she also served as Director General. She was most closely associated with the Dr. Józef Babiński Clinical Hospital in Kraków.
For years, she has collaborated with the World Health Organization, the Ministry of Health, and both national and international institutions in designing and implementing systemic solutions in psychiatry, including in the areas of child and adolescent mental health and suicide prevention. She contributed to the work of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, providing substantive input to the “Council Conclusions on promoting and protecting the mental health of children and adolescents in the digital era” (Council of the EU, doc. 9069/25).
She collaborates with the World Health Organization on evidence reviews concerning the mental health of children and adolescents in the digital environment, as well as the evaluation of the Community Mental Health Centres (CZP) pilot program. As a member of the Presidium of the Main Board of the Polish Psychiatric Association (PTP), she supports the reform of psychiatry and the dissemination of knowledge about its outcomes. Within the Team for Systemic Changes in CZP (Official Journal of the Minister of Health 2024.123), she co-developed the target model and implementation pathway for CZP until 2027, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, the National Health Fund (NFZ), the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System (AOTMiT), and the Office for the Coordination of Mental Health Centres (OSCZP). She is also active in the Mental Health Council at the Ministry of Health and in the regional council in Małopolska.
Author and co-author of scientific publications, academic lecturer, and participant and organizer of international projects, study visits, and expert forums across Europe. Her professional interests focus on the organization of psychiatric care, public health, suicidology, and mental health prevention. In her work, she consistently combines a clinical perspective with systems thinking, actively contributing to the transformation of psychiatry in Poland.
