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Tutors for the 18th Edition

Meet the experts you'll be learning from

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Dr. Vikram Patel

Paul Farmer Professor & Chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School​​​

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Dr. Shekhar Saxena

Former Director, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO)

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Former Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft

Emeritus Professor of Community Mental Health, Centre for Global Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London

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Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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Dr. Abhijit Nadkarni

Co-Director, Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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NIHR Professor, Global Health Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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Co-Director, Addictions & Related Research Group, Sangath

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Professor Crick Lund

Co-Director, Centre for Global Mental Health, Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London

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Honorary Professor, Alan J. Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town

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Dr. Petra Gronholm

Assistant Professor, Centre for Global Mental Health, Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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Principal Investigator, Mental Health Innovation Network (MHIN)

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Dr. Prabha S. Chandra

Senior Professor of Psychiatry

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Past Dean, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS)

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Head of Department, Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS)

Dr. Felix Naughton

Professor of Health Psychology, School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia​

Dr. Sachin Barbde

Community Mental Health, Ekjut India

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Dr. Soumitra Pathare

Director, Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy

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Dr. Sachin Shinde

Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Centre for Inquiry into Mental Health, Pune

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Aastha Sethi

Senior Officer, Policy and Advocacy, United for Global Mental Health

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Senior Fellow, Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity

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Dr. Jurjen Luykx

Psychiatrist and Clinician-Scientist, Amsterdam UMC

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Dr. Julian Eaton

Professor in Global Mental Health, International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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Dr. Gauri Divan

Director, Child Development Group, Sangath

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Honorary Professor, Division of Psychology & Mental Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester

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Dr. Lynne Jones OBE FRCPsych

Honorary Associate Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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Dr. Tasneem Raja

Head, Mental Health Initiatives, Indira Foundation

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Jonathan McKay

Founder, SameSame (SiyaFanaFana)

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Dr. Urvita Bhatia

Assistant Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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Deputy Director, Addictions & Related Research Group, Sangath

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Dr. Upendra Bhojani

Senior Fellow (Professor Grade)

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Lead, Centre for Commercial Determinants of Health

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India Alliance (DBT/Wellcome Trust) Senior Fellow

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Former Director, Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru (India)

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Ratnaboli Ray

Founder and Managing Trustee, Anjali

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Raj Mariwala

Director, Mariwala Health Institute

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Dr. John Naslund

Co-Creator, Mental Health for All Lab, Harvard University

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Senior Research Scientist and Faculty in Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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Dr. Kaustubh Joag (MD Psychiatry)

Co-Director and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy

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Indian Law Society, Pune (India)

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Dr. Anant Bhan

Principal Investigator, Bhopal Hub, Sangath​

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Senior Advisor, Blockchain for Impact

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Past President, International Association of Bioethics (2017-2019)

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Researcher in Bioethics, Mental Health, Global Health, and Health Policy

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Dr. Aneel Brar

Postdoctoral Research Associate, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University, USA

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Co-Founder, Mata Jai Kaur Maternal and Child Health Centre, Rajasthan (India)

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Dr. Manoj Kumar

Founder and Clinical Director, Mental Health Action Trust (MHAT), Kerala (India)

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Dr. Pattie Gonsalves

Project Director, Youth Mental Health Group, Sangath

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Isobel Bandurek

Senior Research Capacity Manager, Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD)

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Charlene Sunkel

Founder/CEO, aves Mental Health

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Dr. Bruce L. Rollman, MD, MPH, MBA

UPMC Endowed Chair in General Internal Medicine

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Director, Centre for Behavioral Health, Media, and Technology

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Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, Biomedical Informatics, and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

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Ira Khan

Founder & Chief Operating Officer (CEO), Agatsu Foundation

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Dr. Monimalika Day

Associate Professor, School of Education Studies, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi

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Director, Centre for Early Childhood Education and Development, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi

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Dr. Siham Sikander

Research Fellow in Global Mental Health, Department of Primary Care & Mental Health, University of Liverpool

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Senior Clinical Lecturer, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, UK

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Sweta Pal

Director, Community Engagement and Involvement, Sangath (India)

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Dr. Sriram Ganapathy

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (India)

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Co-Chief Project Manager & Lead for Conversational AI and Mental Health, TANUH AI

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Reetabrata Roy

Implementation Scientist, Child Development Group, Sangath (India)

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Co-Director, Leadership in Mental Health (LMH) Course, Sangath (India)

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Dr. Ravindra Agrawal

Clinical Research Fellow, Addictions & Related Research Group, Sangath (India)

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Co-Director, Leadership in Mental Health (LMH) Course, Sangath (India)

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