National Mental Health Survey of India 2015-16

We are thankful to all the members of the National Technical Advisory Group and
National Expert Panel for their invaluable support and guidance
NATIONAL TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP
1) Chair Person: Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health Family Welfare, Government of
India
• Mr. Lav Agarwal – wef 9 th Sept 2016
• Mr. Anshu Prakash – 1 st Feb 2014 to 15 th July 2016
• Ms. Sujaya Krishnan – Upto 30 th Jan 2014
2) Member – Secretary: Director, NIMHANS
• Prof. Gangadhar B N, wef 12 th January 2016
• Prof. Satish Chandra P, upto 11 th January 2016
3) Members:
• Prof. D Ram, Director, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi
• Prof. Deuri SK, Director, LGB Regional Institute of Mental Health, Tejpur
• Prof. Vikram Patel, Professor of International Mental Health, Welcome Trust Senior Clinical Research
Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Past chairperson, Sangath, Goa
• Prof. Arvind Pandey, Director, National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi
• Prof. Parasuraman S, Director, Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai
• Prof Surinder Jaswal, Centre for Health and Mental Health, Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai
• Prof. Anand Krishnan Professor of Community Medicine, Centre for Community Medicine, All
India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
• Prof. Mohan K Isaac, Professor of Psychiatry (Population Mental Health) and Deputy Director of the
Community, Culture and Mental Health Unit at the School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, The
University of Western Australia, Perth and Visiting Professor at NIMHANS
• Prof. David Sheehan, Distinguished University Health Professor Emeritus, University of South
Florida College of Medicine, United states of America
National EXPERT Panel
• Prof. Arvind Pandey, Director, National Institute of Medical Statistics, ICMR, New Delhi
• Prof. Sundaram KR, Head of Bio-statistics, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi
• Prof Anand Krishnan, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi
• Prof. Sundar Rao PSS, Former Head of Bio-statistics, CMC, Vellore
• Prof. Subbakrishna D K, Former Head of Bio-statistics, NIMHANS, Bengaluru
• Dr. Ravinder Singh, Programme Officer – Mental Health, ICMR – New Delhi
• Dr. Sadhana Bhagwat, WHO India Office, New Delhi
• Prof. Sreekumaran Nair, Head of Bio-statistics, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
• Prof. Pandey RM, Head of Bio-statistics, AIIMS, New Delhi
• Prof. Murthy NS, Research Coordinator, Department of Community Medicine, MSRMC, Bengaluru
• Prof. Ramesh C, Head of Epidemiology and Bio-statistics, KMIO, Bengaluru
• Dr. Vani BP, Assistant Professor, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru
• Dr. Shubha, Jt Director, NSSO, Kendriya Sadan, Bengaluru
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