14 Facts About Vikram Patel

Vikram Harshad Patel FMedSci was born on 5 May 1964 and is an Indian psychiatrist and researcher best known for his work on child development and mental disability in low-resource settings.

Vikram Patel is the Co-Founder and former Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Co-Director of the Centre for Control of Chronic Conditions at the Public Health Foundation of India, and the Co-Founder of Sangath, an Indian NGO dedicated to research in the areas of child development, adolescent health and mental health.

Vikram Patel was awarded a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship in 2015.

Vikram Patel's work has been financially supported by the London-based biomedical research charity The Wellcome Trust since 1996 where he has served as Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science since 2005.

Vikram Patel currently serves on four Government of India committees: the Mental Health Policy Group ; the National Rural Health Mission ASHA Mentoring Group; the National Human Rights Commission Core Committee on Health; and the Technical Advisory Group of the Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram.

Vikram Patel was Founding and Joint Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health, a partner of the LSHTM with Kings Health Partners, until handing over the role to Professor Ricardo Araya in October 2014.

Vikram Patel is currently Joint Director of the Centre for Chronic Conditions and Injuries at the Public Health Foundation of India located in New Delhi.

Vikram Patel serves on three WHO Committees, which include: Mental Health; Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health; and EMRO Mental Health.

Vikram Patel has served as editor for several major medical publications including the influential Lancet series on global mental health in 2007 and 2011, the PLoS Medicine series on packages of care for mental disorders in 2009, and the series on Global Mental Health Practices in 2012 and onwards.

Vikram Patel was editor of the International Journal of Epidemiology series on global mental health and psychiatric epidemiology in 2014.

Vikram Patel is the editor of two Oxford University Press textbooks on global mental health, Global Mental Health: Principles and Practice and Global Mental Health Trials.

Vikram Patel has spent much of his career in trying to educate people on the nature and importance of global mental health.

Vikram Patel is the chair for the Exam Board of the same program and has helped to design and teach many of the core modules within the program.

Vikram Patel has recently become increasingly involved in researching mental disorders and developmental disabilities in children, seeking to integrate mental health care with more pervasive forms of health care treatments, such as those involving chronic illnesses.