Murali Krishna

About

I am a UK trained psychiatrist with specific training and nearly 20 years of clinical expertise in management of mental disorders across inpatient, outpatient and community settings among both working age and later in life. I am trained in delivering cognitive behavioural therapy and cognitive stimulation therapies. I have set up and delivered dementia care services in the UK and India. I have expertise in conducting epidemiology studies, health systems, translational and implementation research mental health in low and middle income countries through which I have contributed to capacity and capability building in mental health research.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Public Health Bangalore Senior Research Fellow
  2026 - Present
• Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science Senior Clinician Scientist
  2024 - Present
• Institute of Public Health Bengaluru Professor and Program Head
  2024 - Present
• Viveka Hospital Senior Research Fellow Consultant Psychiatrist
  2023 - 2024
• Bangor University Senior Research Fellows
  2018 - 2022
• CSI Holdsworth Memorial Hospital Consultant Psychiatrist and Welcome Research Fellow
  2011 - 2017
• Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board Consultant Psychiatrist in Old Age and Adult Psychiatry
  2007 - 2011
• Mersey Deanery, Liverpool, UK Higher Specialist Training in Adult and Old Age Psychiatry
  2004 - 2007
• Cambridge and Mersey Deanery, Liverpool, UK Basic Specialist Training in Psychiatry
  2000 - 2004

Education

• University of Southampton PhD
  ? - 2019
• University of Southampton MPhil
  ? - 2017
• University of Sheffield MSc
  ? - 2011
• Royal College of Psychiatrists CCST
  ? - 2007
• Royal College of Psychiatrists MRCPsych
  ? - 2003
• University of Mysore MBBS
  ? - 1999

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (43)

• Examining the impact of maternal experiences of domestic violence on the mental health of their adolescent children in India.
  PloS one 2025 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304936
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• Revised Diagnostic Criteria for Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia-The VasCog-2-WSO Criteria.
  JAMA neurology 2025 DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2025.3242
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• Knowledge, Attitudes, and Experiences of Self-Harm and Suicide in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
  Crisis 2025 DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a001004
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• Exploring misclassification of injury intent: A burn register study.
  Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2024.05.010
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• Childhood adversities characterize the heterogeneity in the brain pattern of individuals during neurodevelopment.
  Psychological medicine 2024 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291724000710
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• Development of an electronic burns register: Digitisation of routinely collected hospital data for global burns surveillance.
  Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2023.08.007
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• Parental history of dementia and the risk of dementia: A cross-sectional analysis of a global collaborative study.
  Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2023 DOI: 10.1111/pcn.13561
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• Neurocognitive Analysis of Low-level Arsenic Exposure and Executive Function Mediated by Brain Anomalies Among Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults in India.
  JAMA network open 2023 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.12810
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• Establishing Self-Harm Registers: The Role of Process Mapping to Improve Quality of Surveillance Data Globally.
  International journal of environmental research and public health 2023 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20032647
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• Growth trajectories for executive and social cognitive abilities in an Indian population sample: Impact of demographic and psychosocial determinants.
  Asian journal of psychiatry 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2023.103475
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