DISMANTLING, REDIALING, PERSONALIZING, AND IMPLEMENTING TASK SHIFTING PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS TO TREAT AND PREVENT COMMON MENTAL DISORDERS IN LOW-RESOURCE SETTINGS
RE-SHIFT
Researching Global Mental Health
TEAM
Davide Papola, MD, PhD
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
Dr. Davide Papola is a psychiatrist and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, holding a joint appointment at Harvard Medical School and the University of Verona. Since 2016, he has been actively involved in Global Mental Health as a member of the Cochrane Global Mental Health Network. His expertise lies in the design and creation of systematic reviews, oriented to summarize clinical trial findings using meta-analytic techniques, and the production of evidence based clinical guidelines, covering the pathway from knowledge production to its uptake in clinical practice. He acquires knowledge in research methodology and the GRADE method. He has been involved in activities of guideline development according to this methodology coordinated by national and international institutions (including WHO and the Italian National Institute of Health). He has also an interest in psychotherapy research. Dr. Papola currently works in the research group of Prof. Vikram Patel, at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine of Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Vikram Patel, PhD, MB, MS
The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School
Professor Vikram Patel is The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health in the Blavatnik Institute’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He co-leads the Department’s Mental Health for All lab and co-leads the GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard initiative. His work has focused on the burden of mental health problems across the life course, their association with social disadvantage, and the use of community resources for their prevention and treatment. He is a co-founder of the Movement for Global Mental Health, the Centre for Global Mental Health (at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), the Mental Health Innovations Network, and Sangath, an Indian NGO which won the WHO Public Health Champion of India prize. He is a Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences and has served on the Committee which drafted India’s first National Mental Health Policy and the WHO High Level Independent Commission for NCDs. He has been awarded the Chalmers Medal (the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, UK), the Sarnat Prize (the National Academy of Medicine, USA), the Pardes Humanitarian Prize (the Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation, USA), an Honorary OBE (the UK Government), the Posey Leadership Award (Austin College, USA) and the John Dirk Canada Gairdner Award in Global Health (the Canada Gairdner Foundation). He was listed in TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential persons of the year in 2015.
Corrado Barbui, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Verona
Professor Corrado Barbui, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry, at the University of Verona, Italy, where he is chairperson the Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement Science. He coordinates the activities of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health and Service Evaluation. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, a Cambridge University Press Journal. Corrado Barbui is the PI of several national and international multisite research programmes evaluating the effectiveness and acceptability of pharmacological and non-phamacological interventions for mental health conditions. He conducts research in the field of global mental health, evidence-based psychiatry, psychiatric epidemiology, clinical psychopharmacology and health services research.