Prof. Abhijit Nadkarni, MBBS, DPM, MRCPsych, MSc (Mental Health Services Research), PhD (Epidemiology).

Abhijit is the Co-director of the Addictions & related Research Group in Sangath. He is a NIHR Professor of Global Health Research and Professor of Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK. He is also the Co-director of the Centre for Global Mental Health at LSHTM and King’s College London.

Abhijit is an addiction psychiatrist and global mental health researcher conducting research aimed at developing and evaluating interventions for increasing access to mental healthcare in low resource settings. He has trained at the Goa Medical College, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, UK, King’s College London and LSHTM.

He is actively involved in the capacity building of mental health researchers and lay health workers in India and overseas (e.g. Nepal, Kenya, Uganda). He teaches on various MSc courses (Global Mental Health, Public Health Policy)  at the LSHTM. He is on the State Mental Health Authority for Goa, State Mental Health Policy drafting committee for Maharashtra, and was on the task force of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare that developed the mental health operational guidelines for the Ayushman Bharat Program.