Giuseppe Raviola

Dr. Raviola's scholarly contributions center on the integration and application of quality improvement and public health approaches in innovating clinical practice, teaching and research in the domains of psychiatry and global mental health. This focus is best exemplified by his work on improving the implementation and quality of mental health services—delivered in the United States context at Boston Children's Hospital (BCH), and in the global context with the non-profit health organization Partners In Health (PIH) in Haiti and Rwanda—and the linkage of service delivery projects with teaching and research at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and at in-country sites for local practitioners through the HMS Program in Global Mental Health and Social Change (PGMHSC). This work meets a critical local and global need for innovative mental health delivery solutions, given the significant global burden of mental disorders, and the universal shortage of specialists to address this burden. Dr. Raviola has advocated strongly, through the work of PIH and in international journals, for the need for developing mental health services to address the burden of illness from these neglected conditions, to promote health equity, to build integrated primary health care systems, and to support economic development in low-income countries.