Christopher James Alfred Granville Fairburn OBE (born 20 September 1950) is a British psychiatrist and researcher.
[2] Between 2007 and 2011, Fairburn was a Governor of the Wellcome Trust,[3] and from 2011 to 2016, he was a founder trustee of MQ: Transforming Mental Health.
[11] The third treatment is transdiagnostic in its clinical range and is termed "enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy" or CBT-E.[12] In 2015 NHS England and the Chief Medical Officer recommended that this treatment be made available for all patients with an eating disorder, whatever their eating disorder diagnosis and whatever their age,[13][14] and in 2017 it was endorsed by NICE.
Fairburn is working on the conversion of therapist-delivered psychological treatments into scalable digital interventions, either delivered on their own or with remote support.
[16] Fairburn is collaborating with Vikram Patel and colleagues in India who are developing psychological interventions for common mental disorders suitable for delivery by lay counsellors.