Kamaldeep Bhui

investigating Cultural, Eco-social, & syndemic systems

• Reduce health inequalities and adverse health outcomes such as persistent mental illness, suicide, and premature mortality due to chronic long term conditions
• Advance interdisciplinary research methods & dialogue for paradigm shifting innovations in  prevention, support and care
• Connecting research on the Geopolitics-Environment-Society-Culture-Body-Brain-Mind
• Prevention 

Research includes:

• Reducing ethnic inequalities in the experiences and outcomes of severe mental illnesses, including understanding the role of societal, institutional and interpersonal discrimination and racism as drivers of poor health, and their relevance for effective therapeutics.
• Understanding the drivers of ethnic inequalities in experiences and outcomes of severe mental illness, personality function, coercive care, and multi-morbidity, through investigations of mechanisms involving the eco-social environment, urbanisation, organisations, and bio-social interactions.
• Cultural adaptation of complex interventions and platforms for global mental health research 
• Adolescent Mental Health: Developing life skills and problem solving interventions for young people in India and Kenya and investigating cultural and social aspects of risk and resiliency in population prevention.
• Understanding mechanisms and impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on inflammation and the development of mental illness and multiple long term conditions.
• Preventing and responding to ACEs by interdisciplinary research on social, cultural and arts based methods and interventions
• Criminal Justice and Mental Health Systems: preventing violence, extremism, criminalisation, coercive care through public health models of prevention and policy.
• Digital interventions for prevention and care
• Studies of inflammation and depression in chronic disease and multi-morbidity
• Experience based co-design methods incorporating creative arts methodologies to inform the development of complex care and preventive interventions
• Development and testing of psychotherapy informed interventions

Research legacies and impact: 

An international Centre of Excellence on cultural psychiatry practice, research and teaching (at Centre for Psychiatry, Barts and The London School of Medicine & Dentistry; e.g. see Bhui et al. A cultural consultation service in East London: experiences and outcomes from implementation. doi: 10.3109/09540261.2014.992303).

The Synergi Collaborative Centre (https://synergicollaborativecentre.co.uk/) a national partnership to understand and tackle ethnic inequalities in severe mental illness. The collaborative has won a national Guardian New Radicals Award, QMUL community engagement awards, and QMUL Innovations Award.