Staff Profiles

John Cox

Professor of Mental Health

Email: jcox@glos.ac.uk

Academic and Professional Qualifications

• BM. BCh (1965); BA Hons (Animal physiology);
• DM (1980), Oxford University.
• Doctoral Thesis ‘Psychiatric morbidity and childbirth: a study of 273 semi rural   Ugandan women’ -a prospective controlled community study.
• FRCP; FRCPsych.

Experience and Interests

I am a General Adult Psychiatrist with specific interest in Perinatal Mental Health and Transcultural Psychiatry.  I have published extensively in these fields and more recently in International Mental Health and Medical Ethics particularly religion and psychiatry.

In September 2008 I complete a six year term as Secretary General of the World Psychiatric Association.  Earlier Academic and Clinical experience was in Kampala, London, Edinburgh and Keele where I was the Foundation Professor of Psychiatry.

When President and Dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrist I was directly responsible for issues of Clinical Governments, Education and Training as well as on several committees advisory to Government.


Membership of professional bodies:

• Secretary General World Psychiatric Association (2002-08)
• Member Board of International Affairs, Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Chair European WPA-WHO-UEMS-AEP Task Force.

Recent publications/presentations

Over 90 academic papers, (excluding abstracts); 21 book chapters;
10 books (single or co-author 3) in the fields of Perinatal Mental
Health, Transcultural Psychiatry, Training and Ethics.

Currently co-editing a book on psychiatry and religion, Parenting and Mental Health and several papers in peer review journals within the field of evidence-based medicine.

A co-authored book entitled’ The Management of Perinatal Mental Disorder’ will shortly be published by Gaskell Press. 

“Medicine of the Person: Faith Science of Values” edited by Cox, Campbell, and Fulford, published in 2007 by Jessica Kingsley has been well received.