Vikram Patel: Reimagining the Path to Recovery
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Pedagogies for Life
SPEAKER: Vikram Patel, Harvard Medical School
Vikram Patel Is Professor of Global Health and co-leads the Department's Mental Health for All lab and the GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard Initiative.
His work has focused on the burden of mental health problems across the life course, their association with social disadvantage, and the use of community resources for their prevention and treatment.
He is a co-founder of the Movement for Global Mental Health, the Centre for Global Mental Health, the Mental Health Innovations Network, and Sangath. He is a Fellow of the UK's Academy of Medical Sciences and has served on the Committee which drafted India's first National Mental Health Policy and the WHO High Level Independent Commission for NCOs. He has been awarded multiple prizes including the Chalmers Medal, the Samat Prize, the Pardes Humanitarian Prize among many others. He was listed in TIME Magazine's 100 most influential persons of the year in 2015.