Faculty

Gary Belkin
NYU School of Medicine-Associate Professor and Director, Program in Global Mental Health
Course: No Health Without Mental Health: Problems, Prospects and Principles of Global Mental Health

Gary Belkin, MD, PhD, MPH is Associate Professor and Director, Program in Global Mental Health, New York University School of Medicine. He works both in day-to-day operational and overall policy development work of systems of mental health care, as well as developing and studying emerging approaches to public mental health. In that vein of both research and practice he is Senior Director for Psychiatric Services in the Health and Hospitals Corporation of the City of New York which operates the New York City public hospitals and clinics system and was formerly Chief of Psychiatry (Interim) at Bellevue Hospital. He at the same time is founding Director of the NYU Program in Global Mental Health, which is intended to further innovative implementation and policy approaches to expanding mental health treatment, as well as efforts to extend the impact of behavioral health sciences on other social sectors and outcomes, globally. A key initial venture of that Program is the development of a Mental Health Component of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP), for which he is Mental Health Coordinator. MVP is a 10 –country demonstration effort in sub-saharan Africa developed by the economist Jeffrey Sachs in a collaboration with the Earth Institute of Columbia University and the United Nations to demonstrate sustainable and affordable strategies for meeting the Millennium Development Goals in the world’s poorest regions.