Professor Bruce Singh
Professor of Psychiatry
Deputy Dean
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
University of Melbourne
Prof. Bruce Singh was Cato Professor and Head of the University of Melbourne’s Department of Psychiatry from 1991 to 2007, prior to taking up the appointment of full-time Deputy Dean. The focus of Professor Singh's research activities has been in the area of schizophrenia, and his major achievement, together with Professor D Copolov, past Director of the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, was the establishment of the NH&MRC Schizophrenia Research Unit, which he co-directed from 1988–1996 and from which many notable psychiatry researchers in Melbourne received their training. Other areas of research include psychiatric rehabilitation, psychiatric aspects of disasters, rehabilitation in physical illness and care giving in the community. He has published more than 150 papers in psychiatric literature and has co-edited five books. Professor Singh has consulted for both the State and Commonwealth Governments and is currently Vice-President for Australasia of the South Asia Forum for Mental Health Development and Zonal representative for the WPA.
Previous positions of Professor Singh include Director of Psychiatric Services at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and subsequently Clinical Director of North Western Mental Health, Foundation Chair of Psychological Medicine Monash University at Royal Park and Alfred Hospitals, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Newcastle and a NH&MRC Travelling Fellow in the Clinical Sciences at the University of Rochester, New York and the Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital in London.
Professor Singh graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1968, and subsequently trained as a physician and psychiatrist. He received a PhD in 1982.
Professor Singh was awarded the Centenary Medal of Federation in 2003 and Membership of Order of Australia in 2007 for his contribution to Medicine and Psychiatry and was made an Hon. Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the same year.