Miraj Desai Obituary, Death – We convey with great regret the news of Miraj Desai, PhD’s unexpected passing on Sunday, November 5, 2023, at the age of 41. Miraj worked as an assistant professor in the psychiatry department of the Yale University School of Medicine’s Programme for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH). Since he began his studies at Yale in 2011 as a pre-doctoral clinical fellow, Miraj has been an active member of the campus community.
After that, he finished his postdoctoral programme at the VA in West Haven, and he joined his family in PRCH. In addition to being a member of the South Asian Studies Council, Miraj held positions as a resident fellow at Pierson College, an affiliated faculty member at the Yale School of Public Health and the Centre on Climate Change and Health, and the inventor and director of the Structural Health and Psychology (SHP) lab.
Miraj pioneered the subject of “structural psychology” at Yale, which studies the structural underpinnings of equality, inequity, and health. His creation of the idea of “implicit organisational bias” served as the basis for the National Institute on Minority Health and Disparities (NIMHD) K01 award that he received. Many awards and grants, including a K01 Award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities/NIH, a Pioneering Ideas Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
a KL2 Scholar Award from the Yale Centre for Clinical Investigation/NIH (for research featuring African American communities), and an NIMH Supplement for Minority Health and Mental Health Disparities Research (for research featuring Asian and Latinx communities), have acknowledged and funded his overall research on culture, community, race, and racism.
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