Prof. Dato’ Dr Andrew Mohanraj Chandrasekaran, MBBS (Calicut) MPM (Malaya) Fellowship in Com.Psych (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 wi