Prof Nasim Chaudhry

MBBS, MRCPsych (UK), FRCPsych (UK), MD (UK)

Prof Nasim Chaudhry is a consultant psychiatrist and Chief Executive Officer of Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning (PILL). She is Professor of Psychiatry at Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS). She in the United Kingdom is a fellow of Royal College of Psychiatrist and obtained Doctorate in Medicine from University of Manchester. She was a trainer and regional advisor/tutor of Royal College of Psychiatrists for many years. She worked as a consultant Psychiatrist with the National Health Service in the United Kingdom for 15 years. Her main research interests are in women’s mental health, self-harm and suicide prevention in low income countries, cultural psychiatry and Global Health. She is particularly interested in developing culturally appropriate services and improving access to culturally adapted cost-effective psychosocial therapies for severe mental illness. Her research is related to the aspects of cultural psychiatry which are not only contributing to address the huge Mental Health Gap (MH-Gap) in the low and middle income countries (LAMIC) but have become increasingly important for the appropriate development and delivery of psychiatric services in the Pakistan and UK. She is a Chief investigator and co-investigator for a number research projects funded by various grant bodies such as Medical Research Council, Welcome Trust, NIH-R, CIDA and Grand Challenges Canada.