Dr. Abhijit Nadkarni

Abhijit Nadkarni is a psychiatrist and global mental health researcher whose research focuses on translating evidence into scalable mental health and substance use interventions. He is NIHR Professor of Global Health Research and Professor of Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and leads the Addictions and Related Research Group (ARG) at Sangath, India. His work spans hybrid effectiveness-implementation trials, task-sharing, digital health, intervention adaptation, and health systems strengthening across low- and middle-income countries. He has led major international implementation research programmes funded by NIHR, Wellcome, UKRI, the European Union, and NIH, and has extensive expertise in implementation strategies, process evaluation, stakeholder engagement, and capacity building.