SCISOC TALK - The Black dog: why don't we care?

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• Professor Vikram Patel, Professor of International Mental Health at the LSHTM
• Tuesday 25 October 2016, 20:00-21:30
• Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

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In towns and villages that have few clinics, doctors or nurses, one particular need often gets overlooked: mental health. When there is no psychiatrist, how do people get care when they need it? Vikram Patel studies how to treat conditions like depression and schizophrenia in low-resource communities, and he’s come up with a powerful new model: training the community to help.

Vikram Patel is an Indian psychiatrist and researcher best known for his work on child development and mental disability in low-resource settings. He is the Co-Founder and former Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), 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. In April 2015, he was listed as one of the world’s 100 most influential people by TIME magazine.

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