Shekhar Saxena is Professor of the Practice of Global Mental Health at the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He was interviewed by Virginia Berridge on 6 November 2024. Highlights of the interview include Shekhar talking about:
- being one of the first formally qualified addiction specialists in Delhi, India
- advising the Government of India on the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act
- working for the World Health Organization and helping to get alcohol on the global agenda
- the continued conflict between the profit-making objectives of industry and public health objectives
- the evolving threat of gambling and the recommendations from the Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling
