Vikram Patel

Vikram Patel is a Professor of International Mental Health & Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow.

His passion is to contribute to the goal of improving access to mental health care and and promoting the human rights of people with mental disorders worldwide. He is the Joint Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health, a partnership of the LSHTM with Kings Health Partners. He is based in Goa for most of the year with Sangath, a local NGO he co-founded with other local colleagues, and the Government agencies and the Public Health Foundation of India. In 2011, he was appointed to the Government of India's Mental Health Policy group tasked with developing India's first national mental health policy and recommending the design of the National Mental Health Program.

He is the author of the book Where There Is No Psychiatrist, a mental health care manual for non-specialist health workers, which is widely used in developing countries.

Find out more about the Centre for Global Mental Health: centreforglobalmentalhealth.org