Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health
Global Health and Population
Shekhar Saxena is Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health at the Department of Global Health and Population at the Havard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. A psychiatrist by training, he served in World Health Organization (WHO) from 1998 to 2018, being the Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse from 2010 to 2018. In 2017, he received the prestigious Leon Eisenberg Award from Harvard Medical School. Author of more than 350 academic papers, he functioned as an editor of the Lancet Series on Global Mental Health 2007 and 2011, and the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development 2018. His expertise includes providing advice and technical assistance to policy makers on prevention and management of mental, developmental, neurological and substance use disorders and suicide prevention. He is contributing actively to Global Mental Health at Harvard initiative.
Daniel M, Maulik PK, Kallakuri S, Kaur A, Devarapalli S, Mukherjee A, Bhattacharya A, Billot L, Thornicroft G, Praveen D, Raman U, Sagar R, Kant S, Essue B, Chatterjee S, Saxena S, Patel A, Peiris D.
Trials. 2021 Mar 02. 22(1):179. PMID: 33653406
Kola L, Kohrt BA, Hanlon C, Naslund JA, Sikander S, Balaji M, Benjet C, Cheung EYL, Eaton J, Gonsalves P, Hailemariam M, Luitel NP, Machado DB, Misganaw E, Omigbodun O, Roberts T, Salisbury TT, Shidhaye R, Sunkel C, Ugo V, van Rensburg AJ, Gureje O, Pathare S, Saxena S, Thornicroft G, Patel V.
Lancet Psychiatry. 2021 Feb 24. PMID: 33639109
Regan M, Muhihi A, Nagu T, Aboud S, Ulenga N, Kaaya S, Fawzi MCS, Yousafzai AK, Mugusi F, Fawzi WW, Saxena S, Koenen K, Sudfeld CR.
AIDS Behav. 2021 Feb 17. PMID: 33598866
Kumar M, Bhat A, Unützer J, Saxena S.
Front Psychiatry. 2021. 12:645073. PMID: 33633617
Moitra M, Rahman M, Collins PY, Gohar F, Weaver M, Kinuthia J, Rössler W, Petersen S, Unutzer J, Saxena S, Huang KY, Lai J, Kumar M.
Front Psychiatry. 2021. 12:602614. PMID: 33584383
Wardle H, Degenhardt L, Ceschia A, Saxena S.
Lancet Public Health. 2021 01. 6(1):e2-e3. PMID: 33417844
Gaisl T, Musli N, Baumgartner P, Meier M, Rampini SK, Blozik E, Battegay E, Kohler M, Saxena S.
JMIR Res Protoc. 2020 Dec 08. 9(12):e23973. PMID: 33099459
Eaton J, Rahman A, Gater R, Saxena S, Hammerich A, Saeed K.
East Mediterr Health J. 2020 Oct 13. 26(10):1148-1150. PMID: 33103740
Saxena S.
Psychiatr Serv. 2020 09 01. 71(9):969-970. PMID: 32867611
Barbui C, Purgato M, Abdulmalik J, Caldas-de-Almeida JM, Eaton J, Gureje O, Hanlon C, Nosè M, Ostuzzi G, Saraceno B, Saxena S, Tedeschi F, Thornicroft G.
Br J Psychiatry. 2020 Aug 27. 1-11. PMID: 32847633
Mental health services should be part of universal health coverage, under which people receive all essential health services without being pushed into poverty.
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