Prof Swaran Singh named in list of top 50 most influential BAME health leaders

Professor Swaran Singh has been named in Health Service Journal’s (HSJ) list of the top 50 most influential Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people in English health and care.

Swaran is professor of social and community psychiatry at Warwick Medical School, and set up the Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing Research in 2018. His research focuses on early intervention in psychosis, youth mental health, transitional care, and evidence-based reform of mental health services nationally and internationally, including in Africa and Asia

He first trained as a surgeon, changing direction when he became involved with human rights groups working with children traumatised by the 1984 Sikh massacre in New Delhi.

See the full list on the HSJ website.