Dr Julian Eaton

BSc MSc MBBS MRCPsych

Assistant Professor

Global Mental Health

Room

142b

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Tel.

+44 7711140365

Trained as a psychiatrist in London before living and working in West Africa for 14 years (in Nigeria and Togo). In the UK since 2016 working in global mental health in the development sector as well as in research.

Interested in accessible mental health services in low and middle income countries (particularly Africa), integration of MH in primary care, human rights and MH, MHPSS in emergencies, and the intersection of MH and NTDs.

Affiliations

Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Department of Population Health

Teaching

Global Mental Health MSc at LSHTM/King's College London

External lectures and non-academic engagement

Research

Scaling up mental health services in low income settings.

CEO of the SUCCEED programme at LSHTM in partnership with university partners in Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe

PI and lead at the Mental Health Innovation Network (www.mhinnovation.net)

PI on the SPACE programme as part of the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team

Research Area

Climate change

Clinical guidelines

Complex interventions

Conflict

Health inequalities

Health policy

Health services research

Health systems

Primary care

Discipline

Medicine

Psychology

Social Sciences

Disease and Health Conditions

Mental health

Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)

Region

Middle East & North Africa (developing only)

Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

World

Selected Publications

A structured approach to integrating mental health services into primary care: development of the Mental Health Scale Up Nigeria intervention (mhSUN).

Eaton J; Gureje O; De Silva M; Sheikh TL; Ekpe EE; Abdulaziz M; Muhammad A; Akande Y; Onukogu U; Onyuku T

2018

International journal of mental health systems

The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development.

Patel V; Saxena S; Lund C; Thornicroft G; Baingana F; Bolton P; Chisholm D; Collins PY; Cooper JL; Eaton J