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Dr Abhijit Nadkarni

Assoc. Professor - Global Mental Health

United Kingdom

I am a NIHR Professor of Global Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK. I am also the Co-Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health at LSHTM and King's College London. I am 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. My host institution in India is Sangath, a mental health research NGO, where I am the Director of the Addictions Research Group. I have trained at the Goa Medical College, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, UK, King’s College London and LSHTM.

Along with my research, I am actively involved in the capacity building of mental health researchers and lay health workers in India and overseas (e.g. Nepal, Kenya, Uganda). I teach on various MSc courses (Global Mental Health, Public Health Policy) at the LSHTM, and the Course Director for the annual short course on Leadership in Mental Health in India. I also work actively to influence policy through my roles on the State Mental Health Authority for Goa, State Mental Health Policy drafting committee for Maharashtra, and the task force of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare that developed the mental health operational guidelines for the Ayushman Bharat Program.

Affiliations

Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Evaluation

Teaching

MSc in Global Mental Health
MSc in Global Health Policy (DL)
Accepting PhD students in field of global mental health and addictions research

Research

Global Mental Health
Addictions Research
Alcohol Use Disorders
Implementation Science
Research Area
Alcohol
Clinical trials
Complex interventions
Global Health
Health workers
Substance use
Systematic reviews
Epidemiology
Psychology
Implementation science
Qualitative research
Mixed methods research
Disease and Health Conditions
Addiction
Mental health
Country
India
Kenya
Uganda
Ukraine
Region
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Sustained effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Counselling for Alcohol Problems, a brief psychological treatment for harmful drinking in men, delivered by lay counsellors in primary care: 12-month follow-up of a randomised controlled trial.
NADKARNI, A; WEISS, HA; WEOBONG, B; McDaid, D; Singla, DR; Park, A-L; Bhat, B; Katti, B; McCambridge, J; Murthy, P; King, M; Wilson, GT; KIRKWOOD, B; Fairburn, CG; Velleman, R; PATEL, V;
2017
PLoS medicine
Sustained effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Healthy Activity Programme, a brief psychological treatment for depression delivered by lay counsellors in primary care: 12-month follow-up of a randomised controlled trial.
WEOBONG, B; WEISS, HA; McDaid, D; Singla, DR; Hollon, SD; NADKARNI, A; Park, A-L; Bhat, B; Katti, B; Anand, A; Dimidjian, S; Araya, R; King, M; Vijayakumar, L; Wilson, GT; Velleman, R; KIRKWOOD, BR; Fairburn, CG; PATEL, V;
2017
PLoS medicine
Trajectories of Alcohol Use Disorders and Their Differential Impact: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Goa, India.
NADKARNI, A; WEISS, HA; Bhat, B; PATEL, V;
2017
Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)
Counselling for Alcohol Problems (CAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for harmful drinking in men, in primary care in India: a randomised controlled trial.
NADKARNI, A; WEOBONG, B; WEISS, HA; McCambridge, J; Bhat, B; Katti, B; Murthy, P; King, M; McDaid, D; Park, A-L; Wilson, GT; KIRKWOOD, B; Fairburn, CG; Velleman, R; PATEL, V;
2016
Lancet
The six-year outcome of alcohol use disorders in men: A population based study from India.
NADKARNI, A; WEISS, HA; Naik, A; Bhat, B; PATEL, V;
2016
Drug and alcohol dependence
The systematic development and pilot randomized evaluation of counselling for alcohol problems, a lay counselor-delivered psychological treatment for harmful drinking in primary care in India: the PREMIUM study.
NADKARNI, A; Velleman, R; Dabholkar, H; Shinde, S; Bhat, B; McCambridge, J; Murthy, P; Wilson, T; WEOBONG, B; PATEL, V;
2015
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research
Patterns of alcohol use, their correlates, and impact in male drinkers: a population-based survey from Goa, India.
Pillai, A; Nayak, MB; Greenfield, TK; Bond, JC; NADKARNI, A; PATEL, V;
2012
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Prevalence and correlates of perpetration of violence among young people: a population-based survey from Goa, India.
NADKARNI, A; Dean, K; WEISS, HA; PATEL, V;
2011
Asia-Pacific journal of public health / Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health
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