Professor Crick Lund PhD

Crick Lund, BA (Hons), MA, MSocSci (Clinical Psychology), PhD, is Professor of Global Mental Health and Development in the Centre for Global Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, and Honorary Professor in the Alan J. Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town. He trained as a clinical psychologist at the University of Cape Town and was subsequently involved in developing post-apartheid norms for mental health services for the national Department of Health in South Africa. He worked for WHO from 2000-2005, on the development of the WHO Mental Health Policy and Service Guidance Package, and has consulted to several countries on mental health policy and planning. He was a founding member of the Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health at UCT and served as its first Director, from 2010 to 2017. He was the CEO of the PRogramme for Improving Mental health carE (PRIME), a DFID funded research consortium focusing on the integration of mental health into primary care in low resource settings in five countries (2011-2019). He joined King’s College London in 2017 and his subsequent research has focused on the economic outcomes of mental health care (EconIPV-MH), the development and implementation of district mental health care plans in Ghana (Ghana Somubi-Dwumadie), health systems strengthening in sub-Saharan Africa (ASSET), and the development and evaluation of interventions that address the social determinants of mental health, for example in Colombia, Nepal and South Africa in the ALIVE study and in Brazil, Colombia, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico and South Africa in the CHANCES-6 study. His research interests lie in mental health policy, service planning and the relationship between poverty and mental health in low and middle-income countries. He is co-convenor of the Theory to Practice module in the MSc in Global Mental Health at King’s College London.