Shekhar Saxena

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Shekhar Saxena
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Shekhar Saxena, 9 May 2017
Born
India
Nationality Indian
Occupation(s) Psychiatrist, Researcher, Professor

Shekhar Saxena has worked at the World Health Organization (WHO) [1] and since 2010 has been the Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse (MSD) at World Health Organization's Headquarters Office in Geneva, Switzerland. [2] He is recipient of the 2017 Leon Eisenberg Award. In September 2018 joined the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as visiting professor of Global Mental Health in the Department of Global Health and Population. [3]

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Education

Career

Before joining WHO in 1998 [4] and moving to Geneva, Saxena served as a clinical psychiatrist to patients in Delhi, India. [5] [6] One of the organizations he worked for was the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. [7] In 2010, he was appointed the Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. [7]

Some of his work involves the prevention and management of mental, developmental, neurological, and substance use disorders, and suicide prevention. [8] At WHO, he also led the implementation of the organization's mental health Gap Action Programme. [9]

On 9 May 2017, he received the 8th Annual Leon Eisenberg Award at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [10] In June 2018, after 8 years, he stepped down as the Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at WHO. [11]

Personal life

Shekhar Saxena is married to Dr. Abha Saxena, Director of Global Health Ethics at the World Health Organization. [12] She is also a medical doctor, anesthesiologist, and a bioethicist, and together they live in Geneva, Switzerland. They have two adult daughters no longer living with them. [13]

References

  1. ↑ "Author: Shekhar Saxena, M.D." www.dana.org. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  2. ↑ Mohammadi, Dara (May 2017). "Shekhar Saxena". The Lancet Psychiatry. 4 (5): 359. doi:10.1016/s2215-0366(17)30147-5. ISSN   2215-0366. PMID   28456295.
  3. ↑ "Shekhar Saxena". Shekhar Saxena. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  4. ↑ Saxena, Shekhar (4 May 2015). "Shekhar Saxena". World Bank Blogs. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  5. ↑ "Shekhar Saxena". Mental Health Innovation Network. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Counselling, new medical techniques give cancer patients better chance of survival". India Today. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  7. 1 2 "Dr Shekhar Saxena". Hindustan Times. 22 September 2018. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  8. ↑ "Suicide prevention: an interview with Dr Shekhar Saxena, World Health Organization". News-Medical.net. 5 October 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  9. ↑ "Shekhar Saxena". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  10. ↑ Video, Seven Generations (9 May 2017), Carola Awarding 2017 full shot 6 min , retrieved 22 September 2018
  11. ↑ Davies, Rachael (27 October 2018). "Shekhar Saxena: making mental health a development priority" . The Lancet. 392 (10157): 1509. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32476-0. ISSN   0140-6736. PMID   30314861. S2CID   205989989.
  12. ↑ "Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health". www.jiacam.org. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  13. ↑ "Tanvi Saxena". LinkedIn.
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