Khaldoon Ahmed is a consultant psychiatrist, anthropologist and filmmaker. He was born in London of Pakistani descent. He writes non-fiction and makes short creative films. His last film, John Meyer Ward, is about the demolished Victorian Asylum building at Springfield Hospital. The film was installed at the Museum of the Mind at the Bethlem Hospital, and has been screened internationally.
Khaldoon Ahmed
Original Series

Brown skin, white mask
An NHS psychiatrist reflects on the clarity of thought that allowed Fanon to identify racism as a cause of mental illness.
3rd December 2025
Original Series

The Chenab River
NHS psychiatrist and writer Khaldoon Ahmed on the Punjabi Sufi fable of Sohni Mahiwal, passed down to him by his Pakistani parents.
6th June 2024

Khaldoon Ahmed
Khaldoon Ahmed is a consultant psychiatrist, anthropologist and filmmaker.



