Amit Chakrabarti
Dr. Amit Chakrabarti, MD is a physician, psychopharmacologist and substance abuse epidemiologist by training. He received his MBBS in 1987 from Medical College, Calcutta, India and MD in Pharmacology in 1994 from Banaras Hindu University, India. His research interests are in epidemiology and interventions on alcohol and other substance problems in community based low resource settings; and neurobehavioral consequences of exposure to environmental neurotoxins. Dr. Chakrabarti has around 100 publications and has participated in a number of national and international meetings and conferences. His post-doctoral trainings include NIDA funded Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship in 2002 – 2003 on substance abuse at Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA; and NIDA supported international INVEST/CTN Fellowship during 2008 – 2009 at Northern New England Node of CTN at McLean Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. During his fellowship tenure Dr. Chakrabarti investigated predictors of buprenorphine-naloxone dosing in opioid dependent adolescents and youth. Dr. Chakrabarti has been PI of India chapter of a ten-country study on patterns of consumption of unrecorded alcohol; site investigator of a WHO funded project on alcohol misuse in India in collaboration with NIMHANS, Bangalore; investigator in possible role of a neurotoxin in etiology of an acute neurological illness among rural children in Bihar, India; PI in association between neurodegenerative diseases and pesticide exposure in a rural area of West Bengal, India; co-investigator in associations of chronic low back pain among jute mill workers; as one of Site-PIs in the multi-centric Indo-UK cVEDA project funded by ICMR and MRC on environmental influences including developmental neurotoxins on epigenetics, brain structure and behavior in a cohort of children and adolescents in India; and mental health outcomes of COVID-19 in a multicentric study. His research group is currently investigating community level brief intervention for tobacco, alcohol and cannabis among coal mine workers in West Bengal, India; digital intervention for common mental health problems among community dwelling elderly and setting up a birth cohort to investigate neurobehavioral outcomes of COVID-19 and follow up of the cVEDA cohort.
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