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Prof. Vikram Patel

Vikram Patel is a psychiatrist, professor and co-founder of the CGMH which helps bring better mental health care to low-resource communities -- by teaching ordinary people to deliver basic psychiatric services. “Mental illness and substance abuse disorders rank among the greatest causes of disability worldwide. In poor countries, where there aren’t nearly enough therapists, these conditions cause tremendous suffering and block economic development. Vikram Patel, a psychiatrist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has a solution: train ordinary people to be coun­selors. Now he’s advising the Indian government on incorpor­ating these lay counselors into the national health system".