Research, implementation, impact - the 40 year journey of SCARF, India

Dr Thara Rangaswamy will provide an overview of the activities of the Schizophrenia Research Foundation ( SCARF), a non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation in Chennai, India. Dr Rangaswamy will illustrate how the findings and the experience of the many international collaborative research programmes has fed into and impacted community care programmes. This has not just enriched our care programmes but also enabled the optimal utilisation of our scarce resources. This is the journey spanning 40 long years.

Chair: Dr Abdul Raoof, Associate Dean for Advance Learning and Conferences, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Dr Thara Rangaswamy, Vice chair, Schizophrenia Research Foundation ( SCARF), India