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S01E11
Dr Vikram Patel—Social medicine and global health
Duration: 43:45
Uploaded: September 30, 2020
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About Dr Vikram Patel
Dr Vikram Patel is a psychiatrist and Professor at Harvard’s Department of Global Health and Population. In 2015 he was listed in TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential persons of the year. He is an Adjunct Professor and joint Director of the Centre for Chronic Conditions and Injuries at the Public Health Foundation of India; a Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; and the Co-founder of Sangath—an Indian NGO, which won the MacArthur Foundation’s International Prize for Creative and Effective Institutions in 2008 and the World Health Organization’s Public Health Champion of India award in 2016.
Dr Patel has served on several WHO Government of India committees and his work on the burden of mental disorders, their association with poverty and social disadvantage, and the use of community resources to deliver interventions has been recognised by the Chalmers Medal from the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in the UK, the Sarnat Medal from the US National Academy of Medicine, and the Humanitarian Prize from the Brain & Behaviour Research Foundation.
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Check out Dr Vikram Patel’s Harvard Bio here.
Background, Context and Reference:
- Co-Founder: Sangath NGO
- Co-Founder: Centre for Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Co-Director: Centre for Control of Chronic Conditions at the Public Health Foundation of India
- Awarded: John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award 2019
- Time Magazine: Most Influential Persons of the Year 2015
- Book: Where there is No Psychiatrist
- Bio: George Institute for Global Health
- Bio: Wikipedia
- Articles: National Library of Medicine (Including Mental health interventions in schools in low-income and middle-income countries)
- Articles: Lancet (Including the burden of mental disorders and suicide in young people; Has COVID-19 subverted global health?)
- Articles: Indian Express
Notable people/organisations discussed in today’s podcast
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