Peter B Jones

Peter qualified in medicine at Westminster Medical School. Having first worked as a physician at The Whittington Hospital and KCH, he trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene. He has been Professor of Psychiatry at Cambridge since 2000, Head of Department of Psychiatry from 2000-2014, and Deputy Head of the Clinical School since 2014. He has been a NIHR CLARHC Director since 2008 and is a NIHR Senior Investigator. Peter’s research interests are in the epidemiology of mental illness, particularly early life determinants, and in evaluation of effective interventions at the individual and system level. Clinically he co-led the award winning CAMEO.nhs.uk early intervention service until taking on his NIHR responsibilities in the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research & Care East of England. Peter studied medicine at KCL and Westminster Medical School. He practised hospital medicine for three years before tasting psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry where he remained for nine years becoming an honorary consultant and senior lecturer; three of these were spent as an MRC Training Fellow and reading Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was seconded half-time to the Department of Health 1993-1996 where he led the Policy Research Programme Mental Health Research Initiative and convened the multi-party group that led to the reduction in paracetamol pack size as part of the national suicide prevention policy. After five years at the University of Nottingham, four as Professor of Psychiatry and Community Mental Health, Peter moved to Cambridge in 2000 as Head of Department of Psychiatry and honorary consultant psychiatrist with the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.; he was co-founder of the award-winning Cameo early intervention team for young people who experience a first episode of psychosis. In 2014 he stepped-down as Head of Department to become Deputy Head of the School of Clinical Medicine. Peter was elected a Fellow of Wolfson College in 2003. He is a Director of Cambridge University Health Partners, and Director of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research & Care for the East of England (CLAHRC EoE). He is a trustee of MQ: transforming mental health, a research charity endowed by the Wellcome Trust, and is an NIHR Senior Investigator Emeritus. Peter has been President of IEPA Early Intervention in Mental Health 2016-2018.