Rate My Professor Dhakal Dhakal

Bhubaneswor Dhakal holds a Doctorate from the University of Otago and serves as an Honorary Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Otago, Christchurch, where he is affiliated with the Christchurch Health and Development Study. The Department of Psychological Medicine is New Zealand's largest and most influential centre for mental health research, promoting improved mental health through practical and clinically relevant teaching and research. Dhakal's research employs data from the Christchurch Health and Development Study cohort to investigate life-course trajectories, mental health outcomes, and social determinants of health. His interests include the impacts of multiple mental health disorders on adult investment decisions, typologies of residential mobility in childhood and sociodemographic associations, changes in food environments and adiposity in adulthood, long-term mental health effects of the Canterbury earthquakes, childhood maltreatment and menopause transition, life-course trajectories of cannabis use, adult externalizing and suicidal behavior in children who set fires, and inadequate sun protection practices leading to sunburn.

Earlier research by Dhakal addressed socioeconomic impacts of public forest policies on heterogeneous agricultural households, community forestry policy impacts, institutional models for community forest product utilization, international environmental policy processes dispossessing developing societies of land resources in Nepal, payment for ecosystem services in mountain agricultural landscapes, and policy problems exacerbating social harms in rural communities. Key publications include "Typologies of Residential Mobility in Childhood and Associations with Sociodemographic Characteristics: a Prospective Birth Cohort Study in Aotearoa New Zealand" (2024), "The long-term impacts of the Canterbury earthquakes on the mental health of the Christchurch Health and Development Study cohort" (2022), "Adult Externalizing and Suicidal Behavior in Children Who Set Fires: Analysis of a 40 Year Birth Cohort Study" (2022), "Childhood maltreatment and the menopause transition in a cohort of midlife New Zealand women" (2022), "Life-course trajectories of cannabis use: a latent class analysis of a New Zealand birth cohort" (2020), and "International environmental policy processes that dispossessed developing societies of public land resources: A case study of Nepal" (2023). His publications have accumulated 469 citations.