Crick Lund

Crick Lund, PhD, is Professor of Global Mental Health and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. He is also an Honorary Professor in the Alan J. Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health (CPMH), Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town (UCT). He trained as a clinical psychologist at UCT in the mid-1990s and was subsequently involved in developing post-apartheid norms for mental health services for the national Department of Health. He worked for the World Health Organisation (WHO) from 2000 to 2005 and has consulted to several countries on mental health policy and planning. He was a founding member of the CPMH and served as its first Director, from 2010 to 2017. His research interests lie in mental health policy, service planning and the social determinants of mental health in low and middle-income countries. He is currently Co-PI of the ‘Improving Adolescent mental health by reducing the Impact of poVErty (ALIVE)’ study, developing and evaluating a prevention intervention for adolescent depression and anxiety in Colombia, Nepal and South Africa.