The race to ban ethnicity: A challenge to the diverse identity of psychiatry

Gin S Malhi¹, Kinga Szymaniak², Erica Bell², Gurubhaskar Shivakumar³, Rajiv Tandon⁴

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¹ Academic Department of Psychiatry, Kolling Institute, Northern Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; CADE Clinic and Mood-T, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia; Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: gin.malhi@sydney.edu.au.
² Academic Department of Psychiatry, Kolling Institute, Northern Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; CADE Clinic and Mood-T, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia.
³ Academic Department of Psychiatry, Kolling Institute, Northern Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; CADE Clinic and Mood-T, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia; Adult Mental Health Unit, Hornsby Ku-Ring-Gai Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, Hornsby, NSW, Australia.
⁴ Western Michigan University Department of Psychiatry, Kalamazoo, MI, United States of America.

PMID: 40393236
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2025.104527

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The race to ban ethnicity: A challenge to the diverse identity of psychiatry

Gin S Malhi et al. Asian J Psychiatr. 2025 Jun.

. 2025 Jun:108:104527.

doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2025.104527. Epub 2025 May 13.

Authors

Gin S Malhi¹, Kinga Szymaniak², Erica Bell², Gurubhaskar Shivakumar³, Rajiv Tandon⁴

Affiliations

¹ Academic Department of Psychiatry, Kolling Institute, Northern Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; CADE Clinic and Mood-T, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia; Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: gin.malhi@sydney.edu.au.
² Academic Department of Psychiatry, Kolling Institute, Northern Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; CADE Clinic and Mood-T, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia.
³ Academic Department of Psychiatry, Kolling Institute, Northern Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; CADE Clinic and Mood-T, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia; Adult Mental Health Unit, Hornsby Ku-Ring-Gai Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, Hornsby, NSW, Australia.
⁴ Western Michigan University Department of Psychiatry, Kalamazoo, MI, United States of America.

PMID: 40393236
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2025.104527

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Competing Interest G.S.M. has received grant or research support from National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Rotary Health, NSW Health, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Ramsay Research and Teaching Fund, Elsevier, AstraZeneca, Janssen-Cilag, Lundbeck, Otsuka and Servier; and has been a consultant for AstraZeneca, Janssen-Cilag, Lundbeck, Otsuka and Servier. He is the recipient of an investigator-initiated grant from Janssen-Cilag (PoET Study), joint grant funding from the University of Sydney and National Taiwan University (Ignition Grant) and grant funding from The North Foundation. E.B. has received joint grant funding from the University of Sydney and National Taiwan University (Ignition Grant) and grant funding from The North Foundation. K.S., G.S., and R.T. have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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