Urban Mental Health

About Dinesh Bhugra

Professor Dinesh Bhugra is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London. Past President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. President of the World Psychiatric Association for a three year term 2014-2017. Non-Executive Director Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust (special interest in BAME needs and cultural mediation). Dr Antonio Ventriglio is a psychiatrist working at the Department of Mental Health and Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine University of Foggia Foggia Italy. Dr João Castaldelli-Maia Editor is a psychiatrist at the University of São Paulo Medical School São Paulo Brazil. Layla McCay is Director of the Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health. A psychiatrist and international public health/health systems specialist she holds a medical degree from the University of Glasgow and trained at the Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry in London. She has since held policy roles at the UK Department of Health the World Health Organisation the World Bank and at several global health charities and think tanks based in Washington Tokyo Hong Kong and London with teams across Africa and Asia. She has held academic positions at Georgetown University Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hong Kong University London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and at TED. Layla is Managing Editor of the Journal of Urban Design and Mental Health and writes on health matters for a diversity of publications from The Lancet to New Statesman National Geographic and South China Morning Post.