Kamaldeep Bhui

Kamaldeep Bhui CBE is Professor of Psychiatry, in the Dept of Psychiatry and Nuffield Dept of Primary Care Sciences in the University of Oxford; and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at East London NHS FT and Oxford Health NHS FT. He leads the CHIMES Collaborative, integrating creative arts, social sciences, psychiatric, 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; 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 and syndemic drivers of multiple morbidities in psychoses in order to reduce inequalities. His research is grounded in tackling race inequality and racism and promoting social justice using socio-cultural and anthropological critiques of medical practice.

He is the former Public Health Lead and now Chair of the Publications Management Board at Royal College of Psychiatrists, and Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Psychiatry. He is a Trustee at Centre for Mental Health and ThinkAhead, and a clinical academic advisor to UKHSA. 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. 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.