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Addressing Social Drivers in Global Mental Health: Lessons from an Intervention for Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Nepal
Speaker
Bibhav Acharya, MD, is a professor of psychiatry at UCSF and the Founding Director of the UCSF Psychiatry HEAL Fellowship in Global Mental Health. Born and raised in Nepal, he attended Haverford College and Yale School of Medicine on full scholarships and completed his psychiatry residency at UCSF. His academic work focuses on improving mental health and related conditions in low-resource communities worldwide. He is currently the PI of three NIH-funded R01s and a co-PI of another R01 focused on intimate partner violence, alcohol use, implementation research for co-morbid non-communicable diseases, and HIV intersectional stigma reduction.
His 2024 book, Global Mental Health Training and Practice: An Introductory Framework, provides a comprehensive guide for working across cultures and contexts. In 2007, he co-founded Possible, a healthcare innovation nonprofit that has administered over $40 million in healthcare programs in rural Nepal.
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