Vikram Patel

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Full Name	Vikram Patel
Occupation	Psychiatrist
Date Of Birth	May 5, 1964(1964-05-05)
Age	60
Birthplace	Mumbai
Country	India
Birth City	Maharashtra
Horoscope	Taurus

Vikram Patel Biography

Vikram Patel is one of the most popular and richest Psychiatrist who was born on May 5, 1964 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Vikram Harshad Patel , FMedSci (born May 5th 1964) is an Indian psychiatrist and researcher who is best recognized for his work in the field of the development of children and mental illness in low-resource environments. 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 Co- founder of Sangath Sangath, an Indian NGO that conducts research in the fields of the development of children, adolescent health as well as health and wellness for the mind. Since 2016, he is the Pershing Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine of Harvard Medical School in Boston. He was granted an Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship in 2015. In April of 2015 the magazine named him one of the 100 most influential individuals by TIME magazine.

He took the key role in setting the brand new Movement for Global Mental Health which is a global alliance composed of civilian and professional volunteers working together to support people suffering from mental illness. He was instrumental in helping in the promotion of in the year 2011 Lancet series’ Call to Action. The group has since grown to include more than 10,000 people who work with more than 200 organizations around the globe. In addition, as co-chair of Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health, Patel has recently been instrumental in identifying promising research areas and priority areas for global mental health.

Aside from academic forms of teaching, he also has given over a dozen auditorium speeches, including a global conference in 2012 in association with TED. Patel’s philosophy towards global mental health and its potential treatments can be succinctly summarized in the following quote extracted from his 2012 TED talk introduction:

Patel has spent much of his career in trying to educate people on the nature and importance of global mental health. In 2012, he played an integral role in the establishment of Sangath’s Masters in Global Mental Health program, which is jointly run with the Institute of Psychiatry, London. He is presently the chair for the Exam Board of the same program and has helped to design and teach many of the core modules within the program. One week out of the year, he teaches an intensive Short Course on Research Methods in Global Mental Health in London to aspiring global health workers; this program is also jointly run with the Institute of Psychiatry, London.

He published”Where There Is No Psychiatrist,” a book in 2003 “Where There Is No Psychiatrist,” an e-mental health-care manual that is primarily utilized in countries with poorer infrastructure by non-specialist health care workers and other volunteers. The book has since been translated into 15 languages.

Vikram Patel Net Worth

Vikram Patel is one of the richest Psychiatrist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vikram Patel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Patel received his education at University of Mumbai, (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery 1987) the University of Oxford (Master of Science 1989) and the University of London where he was granted an honorary PhD in 1997 to conduct research regarding mental health disorders Harare.

He was born in 1997 and along with some of his colleagues from the area founded Sangath which is a mental health research non-profit situated in Goa that collaborates with LSHTM on a variety of projects that focus on adolescent development, child health as well as mental health. The year 2008 was the year that Sangath was awarded the MacArthur Foundation’s International Prize for Creative and Effective Institutions and is using the money from the grant to develop new ways to ensure that task-sharing in the field of mental health is properly distributed among doctors as well as community-based health professionals. Sangath is now among India’s top research institutes.

Patel has also served as editor for several major medical publications including the influential Lancet series on global mental health in 2007 and 2011 (as well as universal health care in India again in 2011), the PLoS Medicine series on packages of care for mental disorders in 2009, and the series on Global Mental Health Practices in 2012 and onwards. He was also editor of the International Journal of Epidemiology series on global mental health and psychiatric epidemiology in 2014. And as of recent, he is the editor of two Oxford University Press textbooks on global mental health titled “Global Mental Health: Principles and Practice” and “Global Mental Health Trials”.

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Vikram Ranked on the list of most popular Psychiatrist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Vikram Patel celebrates birthday on May 5 of every year.