Social Psychiatry in South Asia

<p>Dr. S M Yasir Arafat is currently working as an Associate Consultant of Psychiatry at Bangladesh Specialized Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is an Associate Professor of Frontier University Garowe, Somalia, an Associate Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Biomedical Research Foundation, Bangladesh. He was affiliated with the University of Bristol, UK, as a Visiting Senior Research Associate (August 2021&ndash;2023) and an Honorary Research Fellow with Dnet (October 2023-25). He completed his MD in Psychiatry from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, and his MBBS from the Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh. He also did an MPH in Health Economics and an MBA in Marketing. Dr. Arafat has (co)authored more than 400 peer-reviewed articles and 50 book chapters, and (co)edited more than 15 books with Springer. He is the lead editor of the book series South Asian Perspectives in Mental Health and Psychology with Springer. He has been included in the global 2% researcher list in 2021-23, and 2025. He is an editorial member of more than 10 leading journals in mental health, published by Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Routledge, and Sage. His research focused on mental health, suicidal behavior, psychometrics, panic buying, and psycho-sexual disorders.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>Hasina Akter is currently working as an Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Nursing at Bangladesh Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She focuses on mental health and psychiatric nursing. She completed MSN in Mental Health &amp; Psychiatric Nursing from the National Institute of Advanced Nursing Education and Research and BSc in Nursing from the Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is a PhD fellow at Bangladesh Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Hasina Akter has (co)authored more than 20 peer-reviewed articles.</p>