Milton L. Wainberg, MD

Dr. Milton Wainberg is a Latino Immigrant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry.  He is the Co-Director of the Translational Epidemiology and Mental Health Equity Division and the Director of Global Mental Health Research and of the Mental Wellness Equity Center at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute.  He is the founding Chair of the APA Caucus on Global Mental Health & Psychiatry. Additionally, he is the PI of the Global Mental Health Research T32 Fellowship and two D43 programs, one based in Mozambique, and one in Asia.

Dr. Wainberg brings research to sustainable practice integrated into the continuum of care within diverse systems to address the mental and substance use disorders disparities among minoritized populations in low-resource settings in the US and the Asia-Pacific region, and in low- and middle-income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, and South America, while training the next generation of research to practice implementation scientists in the US and abroad.

Dr. Wainberg’s work seeks to decrease the mental and substance use disorders disparities and the social determinants driving them by utilizing technology and task-shifted rigorous training and supervision of non-mental health providers and lay personnel to provide sustainable quality and effective early community detection of mental health and substance use problems and suicide risk for triage into immediate stratified and measurement-based care using digitized evidence-based treatments and referrals to specialized care according to the severity of symptoms and needs.