These are the main authorities related to our investigation topic, the majority in the field of mental health and others related to poverty and economy research.
Pershing Square Professor of Global Health in the Blavatnik Institute’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.He co-founded the Centre for Global Mental Health in 2008 His work on the burden of mental disorders, their association with poverty and social disadvantage, and the use of community resources for the delivery of interventions for their prevention and treatment has been recognized by the Chalmers Medal , the Sarnat Medal, the Pardes Humanitarian Prize, an honorary OBE from the UK Government and the Posey Leadership Award.
Dr. Janet Dzator teaches macroeconomics and microeconomics at the University of Newcastle School of Policy in Australia. She was a research at the Social and Public Health Economics Research unit at Curtin University of Technology. Dzator has published a number of peer reviewed journals including Social Science and Medicine, Social Indicators Research and Economic Analysis and Policy, among others. Her work focuses on issues including mental health care financing.
Dr. Jed Boardman (Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and PhD) is a Psychiatrist that lives in London and also a visiting Senior Lecturer in Social Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience in London, United Kingdom.
He specializes in social and community psychiatry and has experience on mental illness, social inclusion, employment, and welfare benefits of people.
His work can be found here
Neurologist and psychiatrist. Worked for the World Health Organization.He has been director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse , and Director of the Department of Noncommunicable Diseases.He is Professor of Global Health and Mental Health Policies at the University of Lisbon, and directs the collaborating Center for Mental Health at the University of Geneva. Specializes in social psychology, epidemiology and public health, with special emphasis on the issue of human rights.
He is a recognized research scholar from the Department of Sociology Aligarh Muslim University in Aligargh, Uttar Pradesh in India. He has published some articles regarding mental health, the health care system, and the medical costs in India.
Crick Lund, BA, MA, MSocSci, PhD, professor at the University of Cape Town and King’s College London, and the CEO of PRogramme for Improving Mental health carE (PRIME). Known for his research on the relationship between mental health and poverty in low and middle income countries. Worked for the World Health Organization from 2000 to 2005, on the development of their Mental Health Policy and Service Guidance Package, as well as serving as the first director of the Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health from 2010 to 2017.
Physician and anthropologist graduate of Stanford University and Stanford Medical School, with a master’s degree in social anthropology from Harvard and trained in psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital.Arthur Kleinman has published six single authored books including Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture.
Giuliano Russo is lecturer of the Global Public Health at Queen Mary University in the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health in London. He is also a health economist that has worked in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Mexico, Mozambique, Spain, and Italy. His work focuses mainly on mental health and medical policies and market in low and middle income countries, as well as on improving the health systems of these countries. Giuliano is conducting a research project on economic crisis and health in Brazil.
Professor John Toumbourou is the Chair in Health Psychology in the Geelong Waterfront Campus in Victoria, Australia and a prominent health advocate and researcher. He has assisted the development of research in fields of science and mental health. He has received international awards for his contributions in these areas.
Focuses on political, social and environmental determinants of mental disorders, in particular psychosis and schizophrenia. Interested in how poverty, inequality, the built and natural environment and social capital impact the risk for, course and outcome of severe mental illness. Interested in understanding the mechanisms leading from early trauma to diverse mental health outcomes. My main focus is on low- and middle income country contexts and collaborates with partners in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean.
Gindo Tampubolon (Ir, MM, MSc, PhD) is a lecturer in Poverty at the Global Development Institute. He is also deputy director at the Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Doctoral College in United Kingdom, as well as of the Programme in International Development. He has been part of research at the Harvard School of Public Health
Helen Herrman is Professor of Psychiatry at the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health in Melbourne, Australia. She leads the Vulnerable and disengaged youth research area in the Orygen Youth Health Organization designed to improve the mental health of young people. Her other work includes youth, technology and mental health, and depression in primary health care.She has a background of clinical, academic, and service development work in the fields of community mental health care for people with psychosis and in mental health promotion.
Joshua Ssebunnya is a project coordinator at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and a researcher at Butabika National Hospital, Uganda. He is known for his research in mental health awareness in low-income countries, particularly Uganda.
Zegeye Yohannis is a PhD student that works at the Research and Training Department, Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. Zegeye’s work focuses on Psychiatry and Epidemiology. One of his current projects is ‘Magnitude, clinical manifestations, course and outcome of catatonia in tertiary psychiatric hospitals” in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Natalie Drew, Michelle Funk, Martin Knapp
Michelle Funk is based in the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Natalie Drew is also based in the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. While Martin Knapp is based at the Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science in London, United Kingdom, and in the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London.
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Comparative chart about our authorities
In the following comparative chart, we show how our authorities relate to our research question and how they could help in our research with their work.
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Poverty factors, Mental Illness Factors, Poverty, People, Society, Disadvantages, Mental Illness, Middle Income Countries, Low Income Countries, Developing Countries, Authorities
Mental Illness and Poverty 