Eliot Sorel
Eliot Sorel
M.D.
Clinical Professor
Part-time Faculty
School: Milken Institute School of Public Health
Department: Global Health
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Eliot Sorel
Milken Institute School of Public Health
950 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20052
Eliot Sorel, MD, is an innovative global health leader, health systems performance expert, practicing physician, and Clinical Professor of Global Health, Health Policy & Management and of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the George Washington University. Dr. Sorel is:
- A subject matter expert on World Health Organization (WHO), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH Fogarty International Center), National Institute of Mental Health, (NIMH), World Bank Group (WBG), the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) projects.
- Founding editor in chief, Global Mental Health and Psychiatry Review.
- Co-founder, Africa Global Mental Health Institute.
- Lead physician teaching Global Mental Health,the Milken Institute School of Public Health (The George Washington University).
- Originator, the innovative TOTAL Health model, a primary care, mental health, and public health integrated/collaborative template, presented (by invitation) at the WBG/WHO joint Health and Development meeting and Mental Health Innovators Fair (Washington, D.C.: April 2016).
- President, 1st International Perinatal TOTAL Health Congress (June 2018).
- Co-chair, Scientific Committee, Social Determinants of Health/Mental Health & Access to Care World Congress (October 2019). www.wasp2019bucharest.org.
- Principal investigator, clinical public health research project on Depression & Comorbidity in Primary Care in China, India, Iran, Romania published in the International Medical Journal and presented at the Health and Development WBG/WHO joint meeting and Mental Health Innovators’ Fair (Washington, DC: April 2016).
- Lead author of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Position Statement, “Healthcare, Inclusive of Mental Healthcare, Is a Human Right,” APA policy since December, 2017.
- Lead author, APA position statement on Integrated Care (2016).
- Published scholar, including, among others,
- 21st Century Global Mental Health;
- COVID-19 Vaccines, Accelerated Innovations, and 21st Century Social Contract Challenges accessible at https://www.worldsocpsychiatry.org.; and
- OECD’s Making Mental Health Count project (subject matter expert), www.oecd.org.
- Initiator, APA Chester Pierce Human Rights Award endowment completed, Autumn 2021 and launched at the APA Annual Scientific Meeting (New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2022).
- Initiator and Co-author, WPA Bucharest Statement on Integrated Care & Collaborative Care (2015).
- Co-signatory, Amici Curiae Brief of Public Health Experts, American Public Health Association, and American Academy of Nursing, in California, et al., v Texas, No. 19-840 and 19-1019, U.S. Supreme Court, in support of the Affordable Care Act (May 2020).
- Recipient of honors and awards, including
- Rehabilitation International Centennial Award for global mental health leadership (Beijing, China: May 2023);
- APA Assembly Ronald A. Shellow Award (Spring 2021);
- Pioneer and Leader in Public Health honoree, GWU Milken Institute School of Public Health (December 2019);
- Mental Health Champion Award, Universal Health and Mental Health for All Conference (Malta, European Union: December, 2018);
- Excellence Prize presented by the Government of Romania (Washington, D.C.: October, 2018);
- Doctor Honoris Causa Carol Davila Medical University (Bucharest, Romania: October 2009) and by the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania (Bucharest, Romania: June 2014);
- Star of Romania Order of Commander, decorated by the President of Romania (January 2004);
- Commendation by the United States Congress (Congressional Record Autumn 2002) for Resilience in the Face of Terror: Healing the Trauma of 9/11 scientific program chairmanship.