Naeem Dalal
Zambia Medical Association
Naeem Dalal, MD, BScHB, MBcHB, MMED Psychiatry Registrar. Naeem is leading grassroots to system level change around preventive mental health. He has a track record of impact as a Zambian youth mentor and mental health expert, psychiatry registrar at University Teaching Hospitals, and public health chairperson of the Zambia medical association.
Using a holistic lens to promote brain health, he incorporates the voices of people with lived experiences, culture and beliefs coupled with evidence base through research to bring about system level change. He is an alumina of the International Brain Research Organization. He fosters research skills in youth as the Mentorship Director of the Young Emerging Scientists in Zambia. He is an active Global Shaper: World Economic Forum, representing Zambia and the global south by changing the perspective of brain health coupling awareness and acceptance. Naeem is a pioneer shaper in structuring shapers for mental health initiative.
Naeem believes in implementation research and he uses journalism and community outreach to teach the art preventive medicine. He is the founder of a mental health community Ganizo, in Zambia which is redefining mental health disorders at grassroots using culture sensitive dialogue with current trends in neuroscience. Dr Dalal is a staff development fellow at the University of Zambia delivering lecture series on the neuroscience of psychiatric disorders.