Shekhar Saxena

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Biography

Shekhar Saxena is Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health at the Department of Global Health and Population at the Havard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. A psychiatrist by training, he served in World Health Organization (WHO) from 1998 to 2018, being the Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse from 2010 to 2018. In 2017, he received the prestigious Leon Eisenberg Award from Harvard Medical School. Author of more than 350 academic papers, he functioned as an editor of the Lancet Series on Global Mental Health 2007 and 2011, and the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development 2018. His expertise includes providing advice and technical assistance to policy makers on prevention and management of mental, developmental, neurological and substance use disorders and suicide prevention. He is contributing actively to Global Mental Health at Harvard initiative.

Publications

• Service coverage for major depressive disorder: estimated rates of minimally adequate treatment for 204 countries and territories in 2021.

  Santomauro DF, Vos T, Whiteford HA, Chisholm D, Saxena S, Ferrari AJ. Lancet Psychiatry 2024

• Mental Health Care Support in Rural India: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

  Maulik PK, Daniel M, Devarapalli S, Kallakuri S, Kaur A, Ghosh A, Billot L, Mukherjee A, Sagar R, Kant S, Chatterjee S, Essue BM, Raman U, Praveen D, Thornicroft G, Saxena S, Patel A, Peiris D. JAMA Psychiatry 2024 Nov 01

• The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling.

  Wardle H, Degenhardt L, Marionneau V, Reith G, Livingstone C, Sparrow M, Tran LT, Biggar B, Bunn C, Farrell M, Kesaite V, Poznyak V, Quan J, Rehm J, Rintoul A, Sharma M, Shiffman J, Siste K, Ukhova D, Volberg R, Salifu Yendork J, Saxena S. Lancet Public Health 2024 Oct 16

• The Swiss Prison Study (SWIPS): Results from a registry-based study of prisoners in Switzerland from 2015 to 2020.

  Musli N, Baumgartner P, Meier M, Thiel S, Rampini SK, Battegay E, Kohler M, van Rooij F, Kuratle T, Nover L, Saffarini M, Steinack C, Saxena S, Gaisl T. Swiss Med Wkly 2024 07 30

• The prevalence of gambling and problematic gambling: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

  Tran LT, Wardle H, Colledge-Frisby S, Taylor S, Lynch M, Rehm J, Volberg R, Marionneau V, Saxena S, Bunn C, Farrell M, Degenhardt L. Lancet Public Health 2024