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Dr Abhijit Nadkarni

MBBS DPM MRCPsych MSc PhD

Professor
of Global Research

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

I am an addictions psychiatrist conducting research aimed at developing and evaluating interventions for alcohol use disorders in low resource settings. Having completed my medical degree and a specialized degree in psychiatry in Goa (India); I further pursued my post graduate training in General Adult and Addictions Psychiatry under the South London and Maudsley training scheme in UK, and later completed my Masters in Mental Health Services Research from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London and PhD from LSHTM. 

My research interests encompass global mental health, and particularly alcohol use disorders. A lot of my work is based out of Sangath, a research NGO in Goa, India where I started and lead the  Addictions Research Group.

 Finally, I have also been actively involved in the capacity building of mental health researchers and lay health workers. I teach on the Leadership in Mental Health course, which I coordinate in Sangath. I teach on the same course hosted in Egypt by the World Health Organisation-Eastern Mediterranean Region Office; and for the Pacific Island Nations in Australia. Over the past few years, I have trained and supervised lay health workers in community-based mental health care in several parts of India, Chitwan and Kathmandu in Nepal, and in Kenya.  

Affiliations

Department of Population Health
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Teaching

Global Mental Health MSc at the School

Global Mental Health DL Module

Research

Research Area
Clinical trials
Complex interventions
Primary care
Alcohol
Health workers
Behaviour change
Gender
Mixed methods
Implementation research
Violence
Discipline
Epidemiology
Disease and Health Conditions
Chronic disease
Mental health
Addiction
Country
India
Kenya
Uganda
Ukraine
Region
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

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)
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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