David S. Baldwin (born 25 August 1960 in London) is a British psychiatrist and academic who is professor of psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton, UK.
He subsequently earned his FRCPsych from the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2002, followed by a DM from the University of Southampton in 2004.
He is also an honorary professor of psychiatry at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and an honorary consultant psychiatrist at the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Service, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
In 2018, Baldwin had been working on Public Health England's review of dependency on prescription drugs.
[7] He has been the president of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, president of the Depression Alliance, medical patron of Anxiety UK, editor-in-chief of Human Psychopharmacology, editorial board member of Neuroscience Applied, and member of the ECNP Anxiety Network, as well as publishing some 500 scientific papers.