Vikram Harshad Patel is an Indian psychiatrist and researcher best known for his work on child development and mental disability in low-resource settings.
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Ab OsterhausAlso won Chanchlani Global Health Research AwardMichael RutterAlso won Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental HealthNancy Coover AndreasenAlso won Sarnat Prize
Salim Abdool KarimAlso won Canada Gairdner Global Health Award
Dorothy BishopAlso won Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship
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Vikram Harshad 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. Since 2024, he has been the Paul Farmer Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, where he was previously the Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine. He is the Head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and also a Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship in 2015. In April 2015, he was listed as one of the world's 100 most influential people by TIME magazine.
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