Dr Abhijit Nadkarni from the London College of Hygiene & Tropical Drugs (LSHTM) has been awarded a prestigious International Analysis Professorship from the Nationwide Institute for Well being and Care Analysis (NIHR).

Dr Nadkarni, who’s an affiliate professor of International Psychological Well being and addictions psychiatrist, will obtain £1.8 million to assist scale back the impression of alcohol-related harms in India.

He’s one in every of 4 main well being researchers to obtain an award from NIHR over the subsequent 5 years to assist sort out key points starting from wholesome getting old to bettering new child care.

I’m very enthusiastic about this award as it would enable me to increase my analysis on creating and testing inexpensive, accessible and scalable interventions for consuming issues in India and different low-resource settings. Alcohol use problems are a major and rising downside in creating international locations however, sadly, interventions for these problems stay woefully under-funded and under-researched.”

Dr Abhijit Nadkarni, London College of Hygiene & Tropical Drugs

In his challenge, entitled ‘Advancing analysis to cut back alcohol-related harms – classes for coverage, apply and sustainable growth in India’, Dr Nadkarni will develop and check an intervention to sort out downside consuming. The intervention shall be scalable in order that it might cater for variations in severity of downside consuming but in addition attempt to work with households to extend total engagement with therapy. Dr Nadkarni will even study varied methods wanted to arrange well being methods to effectively and sustainably combine the intervention into routine care.

The NIHR International Analysis Professorships acknowledge tutorial leaders with a track-record of utilized well being analysis in LMICs, with eight professorships having been awarded since 2018.

All awardees can have entry to funding for early-career analysis and assist posts.

NIHR Academy Dean, Professor Waljit Dhillo mentioned: “I am delighted to warmly welcome our newest cohort of NIHR International Analysis Professors.

“These main researchers will enhance the well being and care of individuals all over the world. They may develop early profession researchers of their groups worldwide, constructing analysis capability”