Professor Jayati Das-Munshi

Biography

Jayati Das-Munshi is Professor of Social & Psychiatric Epidemiology, Honorary Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London.

She is an academic psychiatrist and epidemiologist whose work focuses on mental health inequalities and their social determinants.

She holds a Chair in Social & Psychiatric Epidemiology at King’s College London and is Co-Director of the UKRI-funded Population Health Improvement UK, Population Mental Health Consortium. She also co-leads the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health platform on cohorts and statistics.

Her previous research has been supported by fellowships from the Medical Research Council and a prior Clinician Scientist Fellowship (Academy of Medical Sciences/ Health Foundation), and she is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

She has particular expertise in large-scale longitudinal data and led one of the first linkages of national census data to electronic health records in England, advancing research on inequalities and severe mental illness.

Her research focuses on the social and structural drivers of mental illness, ethnic and racial inequalities in health, the links between physical and mental health across the life course, and the impact of the COVID19 pandemic on inequalities in people with mental health conditions.

Her work has informed guidelines and initiatives led by the World Health Organization, UK government departments, and the United Nations, where she has contributed in expert advisory roles.

Alongside her academic work, Professor Das-Munshi is a practicing consultant psychiatrist in palliative care at St Christopher’s Hospice. She has published widely in the field and contributes to national efforts aimed at reducing health inequalities and improving outcomes for people living with mental health conditions.