Kamaldeep Bhui is Professor of Psychiatry at Department of Psychiatry and Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, at University of Oxford, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at East London NHS Foundation Trust. He is also Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Psychiatry. His own work and interests include cultural and social psychiatry and health inequalities, public mental health, psychiatric epidemiology, health services research and psychological therapies (he trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist). He has a long-standing interest in preventing health inequalities in the experience and outcome of mental illnesses, improving health services and public health interventions and developing appropriate health policy.