Abstract
In this podcast, we talk to Professor Vikram Patel about the impact of global mental health in the field of medicine, and discuss the initiatives and platforms being developed to promote capacity building, research, policy and advocacy within the established Centre for Global Mental Health. The anticipated challenges, controversies, and future directions for this discipline of global health are highlighted as well.The podcast for this interview is available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/sites/2999/download/Patel.mp3.
Highlights
Professor Vikram Patel is a psychiatrist who works for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he is the joint Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health
For most of the year, he is based in India, where he works with a community-based research organization called Sangath, which he co-founded about 17 years ago. He works with the Public Health Foundation of India, where he recently took on the position as the Honorary Director of the Centre for Mental Health in New Delhi (Figure 1)
There has been a fantastic increase in the amount of resources available for research, and the Centre for Global Mental Health has been a great beneficiary of that largesse
Summary
Professor Vikram Patel is a psychiatrist who works for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he is the joint Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health. Another exciting development is the Mental Health Innovations Network [2], supported by Grand Challenges Canada, whose goal is to synthesize the rapidly growing evidence base in the field into products that can be useful to a variety of different audiences, from researchers and practitioners to civil society and policymakers.
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