Vikram Patel Editor & Author

Joel E. Dimsdale, M.D., is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego in San Diego, California. Yu Xin, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the Peking University Institute of Mental Health in Beijing, China. Arthur Kleinman, M.D., is the Victor and William Fung Director of Harvard University Asia Center; the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University; and Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Vikram Patel, Ph.D., is Professor of International Mental Health and Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in London, England. William E. Narrow, M.D., M.P.H., is Associate Director of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and of the Division of Research of the American Psychiatric Association in Arlington, Virginia. Paul J. Sirovatka, M.S., was Director of Research Policy Analysis at the Division of Research and American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education at the American Psychiatric Association in Arlington, Virginia. Darrel A. Regier, M.D., M.P.H., is Executive Director of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education and Director of Division of Research at the American Psychiatric Association in Arlington, Virginia.