Kathryn Abel
British psychiatrist
Kathryn M. Abel is a British clinical academic psychiatrist specialising clinically in schizophrenia and gender-specified service developments. She was NIHR National Lead for Mental Health for a decade until 2023 when she was appointed as co-chair of the Office for Life Sciences and UK Government's Mental Health Goals programme (formerly the Mental Health Mission), with Professor Husseini Manji.
Abel is Professor of Psychological Medicine and Reproductive Psychiatry at the University of Manchester, where she founded and is Director of the Centre for Women's Mental Health and the NHS's GM.Digital Research Unit.
Her research focuses on the mental and physical health of mothers; its influence on child development and brain development of children; and on how mental illness influences the lives of vulnerable women and their families.
She previously served on the Academic Faculty Executive at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Appraisal Committee C between 2008 and 2018. Abel has co-edited 5 textbooks and authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications. She was a Consolidator fellow of the European Research Council.
Life
Kathryn M. Abel is a British academic psychiatrist specialising clinically in schizophrenia and gender-specified service developments. She qualified in Medicine from Somerville College, Oxford with an MA, and from the University of London with an MBBS and PhD.
She previously served on the Academic Faculty Executive at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Appraisal Committee C between 2008 and 2018. She is a fellow of the European Research Council.
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