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Vikram Patel
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Vikram Patel

psychiatrist

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1964

Vikram Harshad Patel FMedSci 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.

All Quotes by Vikram Patel

“There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.”
— Vikram Patel
“There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.”
— Vikram Patel
“Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.”
— Vikram Patel
“I used to be one of the lead actors of a theatre group called Hetu when I was in medical school. Prithvi Theatre was our stomping ground. I'd got many positive reviews.”
— Vikram Patel
“The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.”
— Vikram Patel
“There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.”
— Vikram Patel