Dixon Chibanda

Director, African Mental Health Research Initiative

Associate Professor of Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Zimbabwe, with an interest in research that focuses on developing innovations that seek to narrow the treatment gap for mental, neurological and substance use disorders globally. Founder of the Friendship Bench programme, an intervention that uses community grandmothers to deliver evidence-based care for depression in several countries.

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