Boiling Point: Problem Anger and What We Can Do About It (2008) explores the relationship between anger and a range of physical, mental, and social problems. The report, which I co-authored for The Mental Health Foundation, finds that a majority of people think we are getting angrier, and that GPs have few options for helping patients with anger problems.

Boiling Point sparked widespread media coverage and debate, including We're More Angry and Less Able To Deal With It (the Guardian), Anger Problems 'Left Untreated' (BBC) What's The True Cause of Anger? (the Times) and Anger: Why We're All Losing Our Cool (the Independent). Boiling Point was an inspiration for the recent BBC2 series about problem anger, Losing it, presented by Griff Rhys-Jones.

The Fundamental Facts:The Latest Facts and Figures on Mental Health (2007) is the third edition of the Mental Health Foundation's flagship publication. An 80-page digest of the latest mental health statistics, it is an indispensable guide for people working in the social care sectors, and is described by Jeremy Paxman as "a valuable tool for all journalists". I was its lead researcher.

Up and Running: Exercise Therapy and the Treatment of Mild-to-Moderate Depression in Primary Care (2005) calls for people with depression to be offered exercise therapy as an alternative to antidepressants. The report, which I researched and wrote for the Mental Health Foundation, finds that 78% of GPs have prescribed an antidepressant, despite believing that an alternative approach might have been more appropriate. Up and Running? outlines the benefits of exercise in treating depression, the obstacles to its more widespread use, and how these might be overcome.

Up and Running? spearheaded a year-long campaign to raise awareness of the benefits of exercise for well-being, (see GPs ignore 'sport not pills' advice for depression (the Observer) and Get Up Off The Couch and Step Onto The Treadmill (the Times), and was nominated for a PR Week award in the not-for-profit sector. The campaign transformed doctors' attitudes, leading to a fourfold increase in the number of GPs prescribing exercise therapy for their patients.

I write regularly for the Guardian on health and well-being issues, often in relationship to Buddhism, and my journalism has been published in many other newspapers and magazines - samples below.

The magic of ordinary experience Buddha avoided the tragi-comic debate about God's existence to focus on far more important issues (Guardian)

Reasons to be cheerful Buddhism teaches that good cheer, rather than 'happiness', might be the key to beating winter blues (Guardian)

Divided we fall The need to re-brand meditation for secular consumption shows how far we are from bridging the gap between science and spirit (Guardian)

End-Of-Life Issues While Tibetan monks are sent to meditate in graveyards, most of us deny the reality of death. But this is a recipe for fear. (Guardian)

When waiting for treatment is worse than the cure NHS environments are stressful enough places without piped pop and TV. (Guardian)

War Itself Makes War More Likely We will not end conflict until we have learned first to cultivate peace in our own minds. (Guardian)

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche (interview). One of Tibet's most respected incarnate lamas talks about life as a spiritual teacher and his plans for a visit to the UK. (Spirit and Destiny)

The Smileometer. Forget measuring a country's success by its GDP - there's a much better system that takes happiness into account. (Independent On Sunday)

Money for no hope. We're throwing more cash than ever before at alternative therapies, but do they cause more stress than they cure? (Independent On Sunday)

Re-enchantment (book review) Jeffrey Paine's tale of how Western idealists fell for Tibetan Buddhism is vibrant and colourful (Observer)