Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre at LUMS

Humair Yusuf is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Psychology stream at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Prior to joining LUMS he worked as a counselling psychologist and psychotherapist in Canada and Pakistan and was involved in initiatives for child and adolescent mental health in Pakistan. His teaching, publications and research interests include the psychology of race, gender, sexuality, class, age, disability and religion, representations of distress and explanatory models of illness. He is co-editor of Counseling Across the Cultural Divide: The Clemmont E. Vontress Reader and has served as publications editor at the Center for Diversity for Counselling and Psychotherapy at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He holds a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Master's degrees from Boston University and the University of Toronto, and a doctoral degree from the University of Toronto.