Bandy X. Lee
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Bandy X. Lee

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Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., is a forensic and social psychiatrist and a world expert on violence who taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for 17 years before joining the Harvard Program in Psychiatry and the Law. She earned her degrees at Yale, interned at Bellevue Medical Center, was Chief Resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, and was a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School. She was also a Fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health. She worked in several maximum-security prisons, played a key role in initiating reforms at Rikers Island, co-founded Yale’s Violence and Health Working Group, and has led a violence prevention collaborators group for the World Health Organization. She is currently President of the World Mental Health Coalition and co-founder of the Violence Prevention Institute. She’s written more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, edited seventeen academic books, and is author of the internationally-acclaimed textbook, Violence (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019). She is also a New York Times bestselling author who has penned over 300 opinion articles for outlets such as the Guardian, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Independent, and Politico.
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