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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.