Niall Boyce studied medicine at Oxford University, and subsequently worked as a psychiatrist on the North London training scheme. From 2010 to 2014, he was a Senior Editor at The Lancet; in 2014, he founded The Lancet Psychiatry, which he edited until 2021. He is now Head of Field Building for Mental Health at Wellcome, where he aims to help the mental health science field in becoming more collaborative, coherent, and focused.