Dinesh Bhugra

Dinesh Kumar Makhan Lal Bhugra CBE is a professor of mental health and diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London.^[1] He is an honorary consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and is former president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.^[2][3] He has been president of the World Psychiatric Association^[4] and the President Elect of the British Medical Association.^[5]

Bhugra became chair of the Mental Health Foundation in 2011,^[6] and was awarded his CBE in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to psychiatry following three years as the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists^[7][8] This same year he became the first ever UK-based psychiatrist to be voted president elect of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), he will serve as president beginning in 2014.^[4]

He is a well-known commentator on mental health issues. He has contributed to The Guardian,^{[9][10][11][12]} The Daily Telegraph,^[13] The Times (UK),^[14] the Financial Times,^[15] The Observer,^[16] The Huffington Post,^[17] the BBC News Magazine,^[18] The Times of India and The New York Times.^[19]

His research interests include topics across social and public health psychiatry: cross-cultural psychiatry, migrant mental health, professionalism in psychiatry, depression, psychosexual medicine, service provision and decision-making.^[2][20] He has become an important authority on these issues, having published over 180 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 100 editorials and invited papers, 90 book chapters and authored or edited 30 books.^[21]