Shekhar saxena biography
- In 2017, he received the prestigious Leon Eisenberg Award from Harvard Medical School.
- Shekhar Saxena has worked at the World Health Organization (WHO) and since 2010 has been the Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse.
- Shekhar Saxena has worked at the World Health Organization and since 2010 has been the Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at World Health Organization's Headquarters Office in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Shekhar Saxena is Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health at the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. A psychiatrist by training, he worked for World Health Organization (WHO) from 20 years till 2018; the last 8 years as the director of mental health and substance abuse. Author of more than 350 academic papers, his expertise includes providing evidence-based advice and technical assistance to policy makers, businesses and civil society on mental health. He was a joint lead-editor of the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development, 2018 and a member of GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard initiative. His areas of interest include social and economic determinants of mental health.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/shekhar-saxena/
Twitter @ssaxenageneva
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Shekhar Saxena
Indian psychiatrist
Shekhar Saxena | |
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Shekhar Saxena, 9 May 2017 | |
| Born | India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation(s) | Psychiatrist, Researcher, Professor |
Shekhar Saxena has worked at the World Health Organization (WHO)[1] and since 2010 has been the Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse (MSD) at World Health Organization's Headquarters Office in Geneva, Switzerland.[2] He is recipient of the 2017 Leon Eisenberg Award. In September 2018 joined the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as visiting professor of Global Mental Health in the Department of Global Health and Population.[3]
Education
Career
Before joining WHO in 1998[4] and moving to Geneva, Saxena served as a clinical psychiatrist to patients in Delhi, India.[5][6] One of the organizations he worked for was the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.[7] He has worked with many major European and North American research and academic institutions, including the National