Professor Neil Greenberg

Neil Greenberg, Professor of Defence Mental Health
BM, BSc, MMedSc, FHEA, MFMLM, DOccMed, MInstLM, MEWI, MFFLM, MD, FRCPsych

Professor Neil Greenberg is a consultant academic, occupational and forensic psychiatrist. Neil served in the United Kingdom Armed Forces for more than 23 years as Royal Navy commando trained medical officer, psychiatrist and researcher. Neil is one of the Forces in Mind Trust Research Centre’s Governance Advisors. He is also one of the senior team within the King’s Centre for Military Health Research and a principal investigator within a nationally funded Health Protection Research unit. He is the current presidential lead for Trauma and the Military at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has a longstanding interest in occupational mental health and has chaired the Royal College’s Special Interest Group in Occupational Psychiatry and led the World Psychiatric Association’s position statement on mental health in the workplace. Neil has published more than 350 scientific papers and book chapters. He is a past Secretary of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, past President of the UK Psychological Trauma Society and has been a Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee. Neil also is a trustee with the Society and Faculty of Occupational Medicine and is part of NHS England’s expert reference group on staff wellbeing.