Professor Alka Ahuja

Alka Ahuja MBE is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and the National Clinical lead for the Welsh Government Technology Enabled Care Centre. She is the elected Chair for the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) in Wales and has previously held a number of roles in RCPsych Wales Devolved Council, including Chair of the Child and Adolescent Faculty and Public Engagement Officer. She was also the vice chair for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists until recently.

Alka is a Visiting Professor at University of South Wales and an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University. Her interests include qualitative research, neurodevelopmental disorders and co-production in healthcare and digital health. She has published in peer reviewed journals and was awarded an MBE for her services to the NHS during the pandemic.

In the past, she has done her psychiatry training in India and worked as a lecturer and researcher at Mumbai University. Her research and writing in psychosocial issues in street children in India have been recognised nationally and internationally.