Dr. Maya Prabhu is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Faculty, Law and Psychiatry Division, Yale University. Dr. Prabhu collaborates with Yale CEA on qualitatively investigating socio-ecological aspects informing the urban to the peri-urban housing crisis. 

A medical doctor and a lawyer, Dr. Prabhu’s research interests include global health, forensic psychiatry, post-traumatic stress disorder in post-conflict situations, and various issues at the nexus of health and human rights. Dr. Prabhu’s past experience includes health policy analysis at the International Affairs Division of Health Canada and the Canadian International Development Agency. 

She has previously practiced corporate litigation at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and was a Deputy Counsel with the Independent Inquiry Commission (“the Volcker Inquiry”) which investigated allegations of fraud and corruption in the UN Oil-for-Food-Programme. She is currently a forensic psychiatrist with the Yale Faculty of Medicine.