Neeraj Gill

Neeraj Gill is a psychiatrist at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service. He is a Professor of Adult Psychiatry and the Clinical Lead for mental health at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University, Gold Coast. He is also professor, public mental health, Mental Health Policy Unit, University of Canberra. He is a medical member of the Queensland Mental Health Review Tribunal.

Neeraj is an elected director on the Board of the the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP). He is the secretary of the World Psychiatric Association Section on Psychiatry, Law and Ethics.

He worked as the Clinical/Medical Director of district mental health services at Toowoomba and then Gold Coast from 2010 to 2017. He acted as the Chief Psychiatrist of Queensland in 2017 and 2018.

In 2019, he served as the psychiatrist member of the Independent Health Advice Panel (under the so-called Medevac Laws), appointed by the Department of Home Affairs, Australian Government.

Neeraj has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) by the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, based on his doctoral thesis on 'human rights of people with mental disabilities'. He has published many academic papers on human rights, mental health law and Aboriginal social and emotional well-being.