The journal's editor-in-chief is Laurence J. Kirmayer (McGill University).

The Associate Editors are Renato Alarcón, Roland Littlewood and Leslie Swartz.

It is the official journal of the World Psychiatric Association Transcultural Psychiatry Section and is also published in association with the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture.

Transcultural Psychiatry focuses on the social and cultural determinants of psychopathology and psychosocial treatments of the range of mental and behavioural problems in individuals, families and communities.

The journal also draws from the disciplines of psychiatric epidemiology, medical anthropology and cross-cultural psychology.