Prabhat Chand
Job role:
Chief and co-ordinator
Member type:
Educator / Academic
Policy Maker
Practitioner/Implementer
Researcher
Brief Biography:
Working as an addiction psychiatrist and interested in prevention, early intervention and treatment of substance use disorders and related co-morbidities. My team also work in capacity building by transferring the specific clinical skills to the community health care providers by use of technology. The weekly NIMHANS ECHO session help in co-managing patients, hand holding the health care professionals and there by increasing thier self-efficacy.
Approach:
Task sharing
Technology
Prevention and promotion
Detection and diagnosis
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
Regions of interest:
Africa
North America
Asia
Setting:
Specialist care
Population:
Adults
Non-communicable diseases (e.g. cancer, diabetes, stroke)
Disorders of interest:
Alcohol/drug use disorders
Country:
India
