Kamaldeep Bhui

Kamaldeep Bhui CBE is Professor of Psychiatry in the Dept of Psychiatry in the University of Oxford; and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at East London and at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trusts. He leads the CHIMES Collaborative, integrating creative arts, interdisciplinary and lived experience perspectives in mental health care and research. Funded by MRC/UKRI and NIHR, he is currently investigating the role of adverse childhood experiences in mental health trajectories using creative arts research methods, to be followed by co-design of digital interventions (a serious game and online cultural assets including life stories) and preventive public health resources; photovoice as an approach to gather experience data and then to co-design interventions to reduce race disparities in the use of the mental health act; and understanding eco-social, intersectional, and syndemic drivers of multiple morbidities in psychoses in order to reduce inequalities. His work spans the life-course and includes research of global mental health, depression, psychoses, suicide and self-harm, extremism and terrorism, air quality and climate change, and the organisation and delivery of health services, and the development of evidence informed policies and legislation. His research seeks to tackle health inequalities, and especially, race inequality and racism and promoting social justice through socio-cultural and anthropological critiques of medical practice and research.

He is a member of the MQ Science Council, a Senior Investigator at NIHR, Director of the World Psychiatric Association’s UK Collaborating Centre, co-Director of the Centre for Understanding Personality (Oxford and East London); and Director of Research and Implementation at the Public Mental Health Implemenation Centre of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is a Trustee at Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, and Governing Board Trustee at Wadham. He is an international Fellow of the American Psychiatric Assocation and an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Kamaldeep Bhui studied Pharmacology (BSc) at UCL and Medicine (MBBS) at United Medical and Dental Schools of Guys and St Thomas’ (now King's College) qualifying in 1988. He holds postgraduate qualifications in psychiatry, mental health studies, epidemiology, and psychotherapy. He completed clinical training in London, secured a first Consultant appointment in 1999, followed in 2000 and 2003 by Consultant/Senior Lecturer and Consultant/Professorial posts in East London Foundation Trust and Queen Mary University of London (Barts and The London, School of Medicine and Dentistry). He trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and previously worked in medical psychotherapy as well as adult psychiatry (assertive outreach for street homeless people) in the NHS.