Danish Hafeez is a Clinical Research Associate at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London. Danish is a medical doctor and has working as a Clinical Research Associate on the Wellcome Trust funded Immune Mechanisms of Antipsychotic Treatment Response study.

Danish completed his Medicine MBChB at the University of Manchester in 2021 and holds an intercalated BSc in Psychology. He received a Psych Star fellowship in 2020 from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Research Interests

• Psychosis Studies
• Immunopsychiatry
• Preventative Psychiatry
• Cultural Psychiatry

Key Publications

Hafeez D, Yung AR. Early persistence of psychotic-like experiences in a community sample of adolescents. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. 2020;1-9

Hafeez D, Song J, Watson C, et al. Increased ethnicity and socioeconomic data collection required in stroke associated with COVID-19. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2021;92:336–337.

Qurashi I, Chaudhry IB, Khoso AB, Husain MH, Hafeez D, Kiran T, Lane S, Naqvi HA, Minhas FA, Nizami AT, Razzaque B, Bokhari SQ, Yung AR, Deakin B, Husain N. A randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial of minocycline and/or Omega-3 fatty acids added to treatment as usual for At Risk Mental States: The NAYAB Study. Brain Behavior and Immunity 2023 

Rogers JP, Watson CJ, Badenoch J,Cross B, Butler M, Song J, Hafeez D, Morrin H, Rengasamy ER, Thomas L, Ralovska S, Smakowski A, Sundaram RD, Hunt CK, Lim MF, Aniwattanapong D, Singh V, Hussain Z, Chakraborty S, Burchill E, Jansen K, Holling H, Walton D, Pollak TA, Ellul M, Koychev I,Solomon T, Michael BD, Nicholson TR, Rooney AG. The neurology and neuropsychiatry of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the early literature reveals frequent CNS manifestations and key emerging narratives. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2021; 92(9):932-941 

Badenoch J, Rengasamy E, Watson C, Jansen K, Chakraborty S, Sundaram RD, Hafeez D, Burchill E, Saini A, Thomas L, Cross B, Hunt CK, Conti I, Ralovska S, Hussain Z, Butler M, Pollak TA, Koychev I, Michael BD, Holling H, Nicholson TR, Rogers JP, Rooney AG. Persistent neuropsychiatric symptoms after COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Brain Commun. 2021 Dec 17;4 

Butler M, Cross B, Hafeez D, Lim MF, Morrin H, Rengasamy ER, Pollak T, Nicholson T. Emerging Knowledge of the Neurobiology of COVID-19, Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2022, Pages 29-43