#6 Mental health and COVID-19 in low resource settings

Julian Eaton, is Mental Health Director for CBM Global, and Assistant Professor at the Centre for Global Mental Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a public health psychiatrist focused mainly in low and middle income countries. He leads a team at CBM providing technical support for programmes around the world, including in emergency settings.
He is currently working on a number of research projects, is PI of the Mental Health Innovations Network at LSHTM, and two projects looking at integration of mental health care in primary care and community settings. He was a member of the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development, and contributes in an advisory capacity to many other initiatives including the WHO’s mental health work.
He recently returned to London, after 15 happy years living and working in West Africa, initially in Nigeria, and more recently in Togo.