Dr. Andrew Mohanraj

Prof. Dato’ Dr Andrew Mohanraj Chandrasekaran

MBBS (Calicut) MPM (Malaya) Fellowship in Community Psychiatry (Melbourne) AM (Malaysia) IARCPsych (UK)

Dr Andrew Mohanraj served the Ministry of Health Malaysia for 12 years before taking up an international assignment after the Asian Tsunami of 2004. As a Consultant Psychiatrist and Mental Health Development Adviser he has done pioneering work in the establishment of sustainable psychosocial rehabilitation services in Indonesia (post disaster, post conflict) , The Philippines(post disaster) and Timor Leste (post conflict).

In 2012, Dr. Andrew Mohanraj returned to Malaysia under the Return of the Expert Programme by Talent Corporation, a unit under the purview of the Prime Minister’s Department. He subsequently joined Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine (in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Medical School , Baltimore) as Associate Professor in Psychiatry and its first Director of Clinical Clerkship.

He continues his consultancy work for local and international government and non-government organizations, Dr Mohanraj is also currently serving his third term as a member of the Mental Health Promotion Advisory Council to the Minister of Health Malaysia. In 2013, in recognition of Dr. Andrew Mohanraj’s international work in the promotion of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), he was appointed as a member of the National Council for Persons with Disabilities, in which he served two terms consecutively.

Besides running his psychiatric practice in Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, he is now engaged in a short term consultancy to provide mental health services to refugees and asylum seekers whose intended destination is Australia. He is also actively involved in the mainstreaming of mental health issues in Malaysia as the President of the Malaysian Mental Health Association. He also serves as the Treasurer/Board Member of the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH).

Having completed a consultancy in Mental Health& Substance Abuse with the WHO (Western Pacific Regional Office) he recently took up an academic position as Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Taylor’s University, Malaysia.