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Psychiatry Vikram Patel leads a global campaign to tackle mental health.

The task isn't for the faint-hearted. He himself describes mental health as the elephant in the room,

a massive global problem that everyone ignores. Vikram's passion for his subject began 20 years ago

when he stepped off a plane into the African heat of Zimbabwe.

As a young researcher he doubted any Western diagnoses or treatments would be of any use, but as

Zimbabweans described their distress, his ideas about

mental health began to change, and his later research in India suggested that

conditions like depression and psychosis could be tackled universally using treatments developed in the West.

Vikram's research guides the public health approach he's now taking to improve global mental health, but he's not been without his critics.

Based in India, Vikram is professor of international mental health at the London School of

Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Vikram Patel, welcome to the Life Scientific.

Thank you.

The challenge you've taken on to tackle mental health globally.

Just how big a problem is it?

Well, if you consider the most conservative estimate of the

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