Aggrey Burke

Biography

Aggrey Washington Burke FRCPsych (13 May 1943 – 21 December 2025) was a Jamaican-born British psychiatrist and academic, who spent the majority of his medical career at St George's Hospital in London, England, specialising in transcultural psychiatry and writing literature on changing attitudes towards black people and mental health. He carried out extensive research on racism and mental illness and was the first black consultant psychiatrist appointed by Britain's National Health Service (NHS). During his early career, Burke conducted studies on the mental health of repatriates at Bellevue Hospital, Jamaica, and concluded that repatriation caused significant psychological harm.

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