Ron Kessler is one of the world’s leading psychiatric epidemiologists, studying data trends in mental and behavioral health around the world. He is a 61-year-old professor at Harvard Medical School, and boils down the research data on large populations of people to figure out what’s underlying the data.
The Boston Globe has a nice piece about him and how he makes a difference with some of the ground-breaking research he’s conducted in mental health:
He is best known as principal investigator of the National Comorbidity Survey, a widely cited landmark study on national mental health in the United States that is conducted every 10 years (he has led it twice), and the co-director of the World Health Organization’s World Mental Health Surveys, a similar project that encompasses 28 countries. Later this week, he will host a symposium in Boston on mental health in the workplace.
Read the full background piece: The go-to guy in mental health studies
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