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'''Dinesh Kumar Makhan Lal Bhugra ''' {{post-nominals|CBE}} is a professor of mental health and diversity at the [[Institute of Psychiatry]] at [[King's College London]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rg.kcl.ac.uk/staffprofiles/staffprofile.php?pid=873 |title=King's College London – Research Staff Profiles |publisher=Rg.kcl.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=9 June 2013}}</ref> He is an honorary consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley [[National Health Service|NHS]] Foundation Trust and is former president of the [[Royal College of Psychiatrists]].<ref name="national.slam">{{cite web |url=http://www.national.slam.nhs.uk/dineshbhugra/ |title=Professor Dinesh Bhugra | SLaM National Services |publisher=National.slam.nhs.uk |date=20 March 2013 |accessdate=9 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107174910/http://www.national.slam.nhs.uk/dineshbhugra/ |archive-date=7 January 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="debretts">{{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/b/19192/Dinesh%20Kumar+BHUGRA.aspx |title=Prof Dinesh Bhugra, CBE Authorised Biography – Debrett's People of Today, Prof Dinesh Bhugra, CBE Profile |publisher=Debretts.com |accessdate=9 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107134833/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/b/19192/Dinesh%20Kumar+BHUGRA.aspx |archivedate=7 January 2014 |df=dmy }}</ref> Bhugra was the president of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) between 2014 and 2017 and the President of the British Medical Association in 2018–2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Medicine's Social Contract |url=https://www.bma.org.uk/media/2606/bma-medicines-social-contract-oct-19.pdf |website=bma.org.uk |access-date=8 October 2024}}</ref>

Bhugra became chair of the [[Mental Health Foundation]] in 2011,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/about-us/our-vision/our-trustees/dinesh-bhugra/ |title=Professor Dinesh Bhugra, Chair of Trustees |publisher=Mentalhealth.org.uk |date=1 July 2011 |accessdate=9 June 2013 |archive-date=24 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224041625/http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/about-us/our-vision/our-trustees/dinesh-bhugra/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and was awarded his CBE in the [[2012 New Year Honours]] for services to psychiatry following three years as the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/documents/digitalasset/dg_200711.pdf |title=New Years Honours List 2012 |publisher=UK Government |accessdate=9 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531023239/http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/documents/digitalasset/dg_200711.pdf |archive-date=31 May 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/discoverpsychiatry/presidentsblogarchive/congratulationsdinesh.aspx |title=Congratulations Dinesh! |publisher=Royal College of Psychiatrists |date=3 January 2012 |access-date=January 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310134930/http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/discoverpsychiatry/presidentsblogarchive/congratulationsdinesh.aspx |archive-date=March 10, 2013}}</ref>

He is a well-known commentator on mental health issues. He has contributed to ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref>{{cite news |first=Amelia |last=Hill |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/jun/20/mental-health-services-in-crisis-over-staff-shortages |title=Mental health services in crisis over staff shortages |work=The Guardian |date=20 June 2011 |access-date=January 19, 2025 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303020220/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/jun/20/mental-health-services-in-crisis-over-staff-shortages |archive-date=March 3, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2012/aug/06/shafilea-ahmed-tough-lessons-learned?newsfeed=true |title=Letters: Shafilea Ahmed and tough lessons to be learned | UK news |work=The Guardian |date= 6 August 2012|accessdate=9 June 2013 |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=David Brindle |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jun/19/evidence-children-risk-mentally-ill-parents?newsfeed=true |title=Study links mental illness with killing | Society |work=The Guardian |date= 19 June 2012|accessdate=9 June 2013 |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/money/2006/apr/12/publicfinances.politics6 |title=The struggle for 'cultural competence' | Money | The Guardian |publisher=Society.guardian.co.uk |date=12 April 2006 |access-date=9 June 2013 |location=London}}</ref> ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'',<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8588242/Mental-health-services-understaffed-and-overcrowded.html |title=Mental health services 'understaffed and overcrowded' |last=Gosden |first=Emily |publisher=Telegraph |date= 21 June 2011 |access-date=January 19, 2025 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624063946/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8588242/Mental-health-services-understaffed-and-overcrowded.html |archive-date=24 June 2011}}</ref> ''[[The Times]]'' (UK),<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/letters/article3527202.ece |title=Liberal heads and internalised racism |newspaper=[[The Times]] |date=4 September 2012 |access-date=January 19, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304010340/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/letters/article3527202.ece |archive-date=March 4, 2014}}</ref> the ''[[Financial Times]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/media/press-cuttings/viewarticlearchive.php |title=Press cuttings |publisher=Kcl.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=9 June 2013 |archive-date=9 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509125643/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/media/press-cuttings/viewarticlearchive.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[The Observer]]'',<ref>{{cite news|author=Amelia Hill |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/jun/29/mentalhealth.health |title=The mental health units that shame the NHS | Society | The Observer |publisher=Guardian |date= 29 June 2008|accessdate=9 June 2013 |location=London}}</ref> ''[[The Huffington Post]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/professor-dinesh-bhugra/tackling-the-stigma-relat_b_3180145.html |title=Professor Dinesh Bhugra: Tackling the Stigma Related to Mental Illnesses in South Asian Communities |publisher=Huffingtonpost.co.uk |date= 2013-04-30|accessdate=9 June 2013}}</ref> the ''[[BBC News Magazine]]'',<ref>{{cite news|last=Fidgen |first=Jo |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21788238 |title=BBC News – Richard O'Brien: 'I'm 70% man' |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=18 March 2013 |accessdate=9 June 2013}}</ref> ''[[The Times of India]]'' and ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Vyawahare |first=Malavika |url=http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/a-conversation-with-psychiatrist-dinesh-bhugra-expert-on-sexual-behavior |title=A Conversation With: Psychiatrist Dinesh Bhugra, Expert on Deviant Sexual Behavior - NYTimes.com |location=Delhi (India);Great Britain;India |publisher=India.blogs.nytimes.com |date= 1 May 2013|accessdate=9 June 2013}}</ref>

His research interests include topics across social and public health psychiatry: [[cross-cultural psychiatry]], migrant mental health, professionalism in psychiatry, depression, psychosexual medicine, service provision and decision-making.<ref name="national.slam" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/staff/profile/default.aspx?go=10175 |title=IoP: staff: Bhugra, Dinesh K |publisher=Iop.kcl.ac.uk |date=18 July 2007 |accessdate=9 June 2013}}</ref> He has become an important authority on these issues, having published over 180 papers in [[Academic journal|peer-reviewed journals]], 100 editorials and invited papers, 90 book chapters and authored or edited 30 books.<ref name="fmlm">{{cite web |url=https://www.fmlm.ac.uk/professor-dinesh-bhugra |title=Professor Dinesh Bhugra | Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management |publisher=Fmlm.ac.uk |accessdate=9 June 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130706165037/https://www.fmlm.ac.uk/professor-dinesh-bhugra |archive-date=6 July 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

== Honours and degrees ==

In addition to his CBE in the 2012 New Years Honours, Bhugra has received honours from the American Psychiatry Association, the American College of Psychiatrists, the Academy of Medical Sciences (Singapore), the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists and the International Medical Sciences Academy. He is on the Council of the [[Academy of Medical Educators, United Kingdom|Academy of Medical Educators]] and is a founding member of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.

He has a PhD from the [[King's College London]], an MPhil from [[Leicester University]], an MSc (sociology) from [[South Bank University]] and an MA (social anthropology) from the University of London in addition to his [[MBBS]] from the Armed Forces Medical College at Poona University in India<ref name="wpanet_a">{{cite web |url=http://www.wpanet.org/uploads/About_WPA/Executive_Committee/dinesh-bhugra-biosketch.pdf |title=Dinesh Bhugra |access-date=May 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120601011950/http://www.wpanet.org/uploads/About_WPA/Executive_Committee/dinesh-bhugra-biosketch.pdf |archive-date=June 1, 2012}}</ref> and the Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery from the [[Worshipful Society of Apothecaries|Society of Apothecaries]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Doctors' attitudes to male homosexuality: A survey | doi=10.1080/02674659008408014 |volume=5 |issue=2 |journal=Sexual and Marital Therapy |pages=167–174 |year=1990 |author=Bhugra Dinesh}}</ref>

He is a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Royal Society of Medicine, the Royal College of Physicians, the Faculty of Public Health and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.<ref name="debretts" /><ref name="wpanet_a" /> On 12 November 2013, the Von Tauber Institute for Global Psychiatry at the [[Nassau University Medical Center]] at East Meadow, New York presented its annual Von Tauber Global Psychiatry Award to Bhugra, in recognition of his outstanding service and accomplishments in world psychiatry.<ref name="[26]">{{cite web |url=http://www.nuhealth.net/pressreleasedetail.asp?ID=1357 |title=NuHealth Psychiatry Department's Von Tauber Institute Honors Eminent UK Psychiatrist Dinesh Bhugra |date=November 18, 2003 |website=NuHealth |access-date=May 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203082045/http://www.nuhealth.net/pressreleasedetail.asp?ID=1357 |archive-date=December 3, 2013}}</ref>

He is a former President of the British Medical Association.<ref name="BMA">{{cite web |url=https://www.bma.org.uk/-/media/files/pdfs/collective%20voice/committees/arm/2017/arm1%20agenda-part-1-2017.pdf |title=Annual Representative Meeting 2017 Agenda |date=June 2017 |publisher=British Medical Association |access-date=May 12, 2021 |archive-date=23 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823162142/https://www.bma.org.uk/-/media/files/pdfs/collective%20voice/committees/arm/2017/arm1%20agenda-part-1-2017.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Academic work ==

He is the editor of the ''[[International Journal of Psychiatry]]'', the ''[[International Review of Psychiatry]]'' and the ''[[International Journal of Culture and Mental Health]]''<ref name="wpanet_a" /> and on the editorial board of 11 other journals including the ''[[British Journal of Psychiatry]]'', the ''[[Indian Journal of Psychiatry]]'' and ''Global Mental Health''. He is a prolific author/editor of over 30 books, 90 book chapters, 100 editorials and over 180 papers.<ref name="fmlm" /> These have included papers in ''[[The Lancet]]'',<ref>{{cite journal|author=Original TextDinesh Bhugra a, Iraklis Harry Minas b |url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)61249-5/fulltext |title=Mental health and global movement of people |journal=The Lancet |accessdate=9 June 2013 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61249-5 |volume=370 |issue=9593 |pages=1109–1111 |year=2007|pmid=17804053 |s2cid=8414601 |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PII0140-6736(92)90120-R/fulltext |title=Begging eunuchs of Bombay |journal=The Lancet |date=15 February 1992 |accessdate=9 June 2013 |doi=10.1016/0140-6736(92)90120-R |volume=339 |issue=8790 |page=432 |author=Bhugra Dinesh|s2cid=54285038 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> ''[[British Medical Journal]]'',<ref>{{cite journal|author=Dinesh Bhugra |url= |title=Indian "psycho" |journal=BMJ |volume=329 |issue=7475 |pages=1191 |doi=10.1136/bmj.329.7475.1191|year=2004 |pmc=527718 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | pmc=1906667 | year=2007 | last1=Lydall | first1=GJ | last2=Malik | first2=A | last3=Bhugra | first3=D | title=Mental health of applicants seems to be deteriorating | volume=334 | issue=7608 | page=1335 | doi=10.1136/bmj.39254.905764.1F | journal=BMJ: British Medical Journal | pmid=17599984}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Dinesh Bhugra |url= |title=Commentary: Promiscuity is acceptable only for men |journal=BMJ |volume=316 |issue=7129 |pages=460–461 |doi=10.1136/bmj.316.7129.460a|pmid=9492679 |year=1998 |pmc=2665614 }}</ref> ''British Journal of Psychiatry'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bjp.rcpsych.org/search?fulltext=bhugra+dinesh&submit=yes&x=0&y=0 | title=The British Journal of Psychiatry }}</ref> ''[[American Journal of Psychiatry]]'',<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=97335 |title=PsychiatryOnline | American Journal of Psychiatry | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Prevalence, Comorbidity, Impact, and Help-Seeking in the British National Psychiatric Morbidity Survey of 2000 |doi=10.1176/appi.pn.2013.2b39 |accessdate=9 June 2013 |volume=48 |issue=4 |journal=Psychiatric News |pages=22–43 |year=2013 |author=Moran Mark|url-access=subscription }}</ref> ''Indian Journal of Psychiatry'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indianjpsychiatry.org/searchresult.asp?search=bhugra+dinesh&btn_search.x=0&btn_search.y=0&btn_search=Search&journal=X&entries=10&pg=1 |title=bhugra dinesh – Indian Journal of Psychiatry |publisher=Indianjpsychiatry.org |date=15 April 2007 |accessdate=9 June 2013}}</ref> ''[[Canadian Journal of Psychiatry]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/1933768/Training_residents_in_human_sexuality_ |title=Unbound MEDLINE : Training residents in human sexualit |publisher=Unboundmedicine.com |date= |accessdate=9 June 2013}}</ref> and ''[[World Psychiatry (journal)|World Psychiatry]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1002/j.2051-5545.2011.tb00002.x | pmc=3048516 | volume=10 | title=WPA guidance on mental health and mental health care in migrants | year=2011 | journal=World Psychiatry | pages=2–10 | author=Bhugra Dinesh | issue=1 | pmid=21379345}}</ref><ref name="onlinelibrary.wiley">{{cite journal|title= The International Study on Career Choice in Psychiatry: A preliminary report|doi=10.1002/wps.20044 |pmid = 23744631|date=4 June 2013 |volume=12 |issue=2 |journal=World Psychiatry |page=181 |author=Bhugra Dinesh|pmc=3683275 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=What makes a good psychiatrist? A survey of clinical tutors responsible for psychiatric training in the UK and Eire |date=12 March 2013 |doi=10.1002/j.2051-5545.2009.tb00226.x |pmid = 19516937|volume=8 |issue=2 |journal=World Psychiatry |pages=119–120 |author=Bhugra Dinesh|pmc=2691170 }}</ref>

He has been awarded research grants/position with the World Psychiatric Association, where he leads a 23-nation study regarding recruitment into psychiatry,<ref name="onlinelibrary.wiley" /> the [[Medical Research Council (United Kingdom)|Medical Research Council]], where he worked on a study assessing care of ethnic minorities<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dineshbhugra.net/dbcareer.html |title=Academic Psychiatrist – Career |publisher=Dinesh Bhugra |date=1 October 1992 |accessdate=9 June 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130706165051/http://www.dineshbhugra.net/dbcareer.html |archive-date=6 July 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and the [[Wellcome Trust]], which funded research into the portrayal of mental illness in [[Hindi cinema]] through their history of medicine fellowships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/discoverpsychiatry/studentassociates/newsandevents/sablogs/madtalesfrombollywood.aspx |title=Mad Tales from Bollywood: Portrayal of Mental Illness in conventional Hindi Cinema |publisher=Rcpsych.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=9 June 2013}}</ref> He has presented the latter at the famous [[Gresham College]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/bollywood-and-mental-illness |title=Bollywood and Mental Illness | Gresham College |publisher=Gresham.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=9 June 2013}}</ref>

== Education work ==

Bhugra sits on the Education Committee of the European Psychiatric Association<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.europsy.net/who-we-are/committees/committee-on-education/ |title=WHO WE ARE Committees Committee on Education | European Psychiatric Association |publisher=Europsy.net |accessdate=6 July 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130706165100/http://www.europsy.net/who-we-are/committees/committee-on-education/ |archive-date=6 July 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and is currently leading an international research project covering recruitment of medical students into psychiatry across 23 countries funded by the World Psychiatric Association.<ref name="onlinelibrary.wiley"/>

As vice-chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges for Education from 2008 to 2011 he represented all UK doctors producing policy, strategies and reforms to improve medical education and training.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.aomrc.org.uk/component/docman/doc_view/199-7-december-2009.html?Itemid=33 |title=Summary of the meeting of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Monday 7th December 2009 at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health |date=December 7, 2009 |publisher=Academy of Medical Royal Colleges |access-date=May 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227201122/http://www.aomrc.org.uk/component/docman/doc_view/199-7-december-2009.html?Itemid=33 |archive-date=27 February 2014 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> This included reviewing current training programmes, including the Medical Education England Review of the Foundation Programme, medical professionalism, curricula and assessments. For the UK government, he co-chaired the Medical Programme Board alongside Dr Patricia Hamilton – the director for medical education at the [[Department of Health (United Kingdom)|Department of Health]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mee.nhs.uk/pdf/MPB_Minutes_130411.pdf |title=Medical Programme Board Paper 39-1 |publisher=Medical Education England |date=April 13, 2011 |access-date=May 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225182737/http://www.mee.nhs.uk/pdf/MPB_Minutes_130411.pdf |archive-date=25 February 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

His published work includes many articles and books relating to medical and psychiatric training, with books including ''Management for Psychiatrists''<ref>{{cite book|title=Management for Psychiatrists: Amazon.co.uk: Dinesh Bhugra, Stuart Bell, Alistair Burns: Books |date=1 September 2007 |id= {{ASIN|1904671497|country=uk}} }}</ref> and ''Workplace-Based Assessments in Psychiatry ''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/publications/books/rcpp/9781908020062.aspx |title=978 1 908020 06 2 |publisher=Rcpsych.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=9 June 2013}}</ref> His books have received several commendations in recent years. His ''Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry'' won the 2012 Creative Scholarship Award from the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture and was commended in the 2008 [[British Medical Association|BMA]] Book Awards. His ''Mental Health of Refugees and Asylum Seekers'' book was highly commended in the 2011 BMA Awards.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/professor-dinesh-bhugra/ |title=Professor Dinesh Bhugra |publisher=Huffingtonpost.co.uk |date= |accessdate=9 June 2013}}</ref>

As president (2008–2011) and dean (2003–2008) of the Royal College of Psychiatrists he led on education issues and introduced new curricula, new assessment schemes and made the [[MRCPsych]] examination accessible to psychiatry trainees across the globe.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/Annuial%20_Review%202011.pdf |title=Annual Review 2011 |publisher=Royal College of Psychiatrists |access-date=May 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104104506/https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/Annuial%20_Review%202011.pdf |archive-date=January 4, 2012}}</ref>

== Personal life ==

Bhugra was born in [[Yamunanagar]] in India,<ref name="debretts" /> where he won the [[National Science Talent Search]] Scholarship to attend medical school at the [[Armed Forces Medical College]] at [[Savitribai Phule Pune University|Poona University]].
He studied at [[Mukand Lal National College|Mukand Lal National Higher Secondary School]], Yamunanagar.

Bhugra is openly gay. He has been with his partner Mike for more than 30 years.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/27/dinesh-bhugra-psychiatry-mental-illness | title=Dinesh Bhugra: Psychiatry needs a broader focus| newspaper=The Guardian| date=2013-11-27| last1=Strudwick| first1=Patrick}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.bilerico.com/2013/12/incoming_world_psychiatric_association_head_comes_.php | title=Incoming World Psychiatric Association Head Comes Out as Gay | access-date=31 December 2013 | archive-date=1 January 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101034406/http://www.bilerico.com/2013/12/incoming_world_psychiatric_association_head_comes_.php | url-status=dead }}</ref>

== References ==

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== External links ==
* [http://www.dineshbhugra.net/ Dinesh Bhugra's website]
* [https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/dinesh.bhugra.html Professor Dinesh Bhugra's page at King's College London] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224115648/https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/dinesh.bhugra.html |date=24 February 2014 }}

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