Primary Faculty

Shekhar Saxena

Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health

Global Health and Population

ssaxena@hsph.harvard.edu

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Overview

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.

Bibliography

Mental disorders and COVID-19 deaths: Clinical, public health, and human rights implications.

Saxena S, Chwa C.

PLoS Med. 2023 04. 20(4):e1004220. PMID: 37040331

Scaling up community-delivered mental health support and care: A landscape analysis.

Siddiqui S, Morris A, Ikeda DJ, Balsari S, Blanke L, Pearsall M, Rodriguez R, Saxena S, Miller BF, Patel V, Naslund JA.

Front Public Health. 2022. 10:992222. PMID: 36568763

Quantifying the global burden of mental disorders and their economic value.

Arias D, Saxena S, Verguet S.

EClinicalMedicine. 2022 Dec. 54:101675. PMID: 36193171

Operational challenges in the pre-intervention phase of a mental health trial in rural India: reflections from SMART Mental Health.

Mukherjee A, Daniel M, Kaur A, Devarapalli S, Kallakuri S, Essue B, Raman U, Thornicroft G, Saxena S, Peiris D, Maulik PK.

Int J Ment Health Syst. 2022 Aug 16. 16(1):42. PMID: 35974341

Protocol for process evaluation of SMART Mental Health cluster randomised control trial: an intervention for management of common mental disorders in India.

Mukherjee A, Daniel M, Kallakuri S, Kaur A, Devarapalli S, Raman U, Thornicroft G, Essue BM, Praveen D, Sagar R, Kant S, Saxena S, Patel A, Peiris D, Maulik PK.

BMJ Open. 2022 06 17. 12(6):e058669. PMID: 35715180

Policy stringency and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal analysis of data from 15 countries.

Aknin LB, Andretti B, Goldszmidt R, Helliwell JF, Petherick A, De Neve JE, Dunn EW, Fancourt D, Goldberg E, Jones SP, Karadag O, Karam E, Layard R, Saxena S, Thornton E, Whillans A, Zaki J.

Lancet Public Health. 2022 05. 7(5):e417-e426. PMID: 35461592

The global gap in treatment coverage for major depressive disorder in 84 countries from 2000-2019: A systematic review and Bayesian meta-regression analysis.

Moitra M, Santomauro D, Collins PY, Vos T, Whiteford H, Saxena S, Ferrari AJ.

PLoS Med. 2022 02. 19(2):e1003901. PMID: 35167593

Public mental health: required actions to address implementation failure in the context of COVID-19.

Campion J, Javed A, Lund C, Sartorius N, Saxena S, Marmot M, Allan J, Udomratn P.

Lancet Psychiatry. 2022 02. 9(2):169-182. PMID: 35065723

Mental Health During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and Recommendations for Moving Forward.

Aknin LB, De Neve JE, Dunn EW, Fancourt DE, Goldberg E, Helliwell JF, Jones SP, Karam E, Layard R, Lyubomirsky S, Rzepa A, Saxena S, Thornton EM, VanderWeele TJ, Whillans AV, Zaki J, Karadag O, Ben Amor Y.

Perspect Psychol Sci. 2022 07. 17(4):915-936. PMID: 35044275

A Four-Component Framework Toward Patient-Centered, Integrated Mental Healthcare in Kenya.

Kumar M, Osborn TL, Mugo C, Akbarialiabad H, Warfa O, Mbuthia WM, Wambugu C, Ngunu C, Gohar F, Mwaniga S, Njuguna S, Saxena S.

Front Public Health. 2021. 9:756861. PMID: 34926382

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