Simon Rice is the Global Director of the Movember Men’s Health Institute. He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow with the Centre for Youth Mental Health (Orygen) at the University of Melbourne, having held competitively funded roles there since 2013, including promotion to full professor in 2024. He was formerly an NHMRC Career Development Fellow (2019–2022) and a University of Melbourne Dame Kate Campbell Fellow (2023–2024). He established the Young Men's Mental Health Research Program at the Centre for Youth Mental Health, overseeing a team of Postdoctoral Fellows, PhD Candidates, and Research Assistants examining social influences on mental health outcomes, with a focus on young men’s mental health and athlete mental health. He held a concurrent position as Senior Clinical Psychologist at the Youth Mood Clinic, Orygen Specialist Programs, where he provided clinical supervision, intervention and oversight of clinical trials for severe and complex youth depression, including the management of suicide risk in young people.