Pere Bonet is a doctor specialising in Psychiatry, and the director of the Mental Health Chair created in 2019 by UVic-UCC and the Althaia Foundation and president of the Mental Health Cluster of Catalonia. He was Mental Health director of the Althaia Foundation, president of the Government of Catalonia’s Mental Health and Addictions Advisory Council, and is currently a Mental Health adviser to the Ministry of Health of the Government of Andorra, coordinating the country’s Comprehensive Mental Health Plan. He has worked with the WHO, and is a member of the Board of the European Association for Mental Health in Intellectual Disability (EAMHID). We talked to him about how the pandemic has impacted on the mental health of people and society, and how the chair he leads has changed and adapted to this situation.