MBBS,DPM,MRCPsych,MSc,PhD
Keynote: Addictions in the elderly (over 55 yrs): challenges and opportunities
Bio
Abhijit is a NIHR Professor of Global Research and Professor of Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK. He is also the Co-Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health at LSHTM and King’s College London. He is 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. His host institution in India is Sangath, a mental health research NGO, where he is the Director of the Addictions and related Research Group (ARG).