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Professor Kamaldeep Bhui

Professor of Cultural Psychiatry and Epidemiology at Queen Mary University of London

Kam Bhui is a Professor of Cultural Psychiatry & Epidemiology at Queen Mary University of London. His interests include social exclusion, cultural psychiatry, health services research and psychological therapies.

Prof Bhui qualified in Medicine at the United Medical Schools of Guy's & St Thomas, and subsequently has worked at the Maudsley, Institute of Psychiatry, Guy's King's, St Thomas' Medical Schools.

His current research projects includes studies of residential mobility and the effects on mental health of Somali refugees, explanatory models of mental disorder, work characteristics and ethnicity.

He is also the co-founder of Careif (www.careif.org), an international mental health charity based in London that promotes work for young people and their health through culture, sport and arts.

Prof Bhui is President elect of WACP & Congress President for the Third World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry 2012 (www.wacp2012.org). He is editor of International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, Ethnicity and Health, and on the editorial board of Transcultural Psychiatry and the BMC series of journals.

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