Sally Nicola Merry is a New Zealand child psychiatry academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland and holds the Cure Kids Duke Family Chair in Child and Adolescent Mental Health.Merry obtained her PhD from the University of Auckland. The title of her 2006 doctoral thesis was Population-based approaches to reducing depression in adolescents in New Zealand.Merry rose to full professor in 2015, and has been involved in the development and evaluation of the SPARX video game for young persons with mild to moderate depression, stress or anxiety. In 2014, Merry was named as the NEXT Woman of the Year in the Health & Science category. Source: Wikipedia (en)