Sandeep Ranote

Professor Sandeep Ranote is Clinical Director for Mental Health at NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care and Consultant Paediatric Psychiatrist, leading Young People’s community eating disorder services. She was previously an NHS Executive Medical Director.

Her published research includes perinatal neuroimaging, eating disorders and medical skin camouflage for self-harm and most recently the impact of Covid 19 on young people.

She was part of the ministerial Taskforce, Future in Mind, 2015 developing the national CAMHS transformation blueprint, and clinical expert for NHS England’s eating disorder commissioning guidance and workforce curriculum 2015. She is a contributing author to the Royal College of Psychiatrists' book 'The Female Mind' and was awarded a fellowship to The Royal College in 2014.

Sandeep has led the award-winning Greater Manchester Mentally Healthy Schools Programme and the trailblazing University Mental Health service across all Greater Manchester’s universities. She is a clinical sponsor for the pioneering Greater Manchester Creative Health strategy which launched in November 2022 and sees this as the first creative health city region in the world. She gave evidence as an expert panel member in Parliament for the Body Image inquiry report in 2022 and in 2024 spoke as a panel member on the global youth mental health crisis at The United Nations General Assembly Global Science Summit.

Sandeep is a Visiting Professor in Mental Health at The University of Salford, and clinical advisor to Edge Hill Univeristy’s Arts in Health Research Centre. She has been clinical advisor for Kooth, a leading digital mental health provider and is a media spokesperson for national eating disorder charity BEAT, advisor for Mental health Charity, The Prudence Trust and trustee at Castlefield art gallery. Appointed to The British Beauty Council Advisory Board in 2024 she supports their work on wellness and was appointed as Chair of Higher Health UK in 2025 extending her work internationally to support mental health and well-being in the voluntary and community sector through education and life skills, embedding prevention at a population health level and tackling the growing youth unemployment and disability crisis.