Chapter title: Student mental health in Asia: Burden, help-seeking patterns, opportunities, and barriers
Author: Karthick Subramanian, M.D.
Affiliation: Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute (MGMCRI), India
Author: Parthasarathy Ramamurthy, M.D.
Affiliation: Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Author: Vikas Menon, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), India
Author Biographies:
Dr. Karthick Subramanian is a psychiatric consultant and assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute (MGMCRI) in Puducherry, India. He received his Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree in Psychiatry from the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry.
Dr. Karthick’s main research interests are in bipolar disorder, substance abuse, suicide, and community psychiatry. He is also interested in clinical teaching and academic psychiatry. He has more than 40 international publications across major scientific journals. His current projects are focused on caregiver burden in suicide survivors and substance use disorders.
Dr. Parthasarathy Ramamurthy completed his MBBS and MD in Psychiatry at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (a unit of Madras Medical Mission) and has several publications in peer-reviewed national and international journals. His primary research interests are suicidal behaviour, student mental health, and forensic psychiatry. He serves on the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine (IJPM) and is also an assistant editor for the Journal of Current Research in Scientific Medicine (JCRSM).
Dr. Vikas Menon, MD, is a professor of psychiatry at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) in Puducherry, India. He completed his postgraduate medical training in Psychiatry in 2008 from JIPMER. His research focuses on the use of frugal, innovative technology to close the gap in mental health treatment in India, and on medical education. He has published over 200 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and contributed seven book chapters in edited volumes. He also serves on the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Psychiatry.
