Milton Wainberg is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Director of Global Mental Health Research in the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University. He is Director of the NIMH-funded Columbia University Global Mental Health Implementation Science T32-Post Doctoral Fellowship, NIMH/Fogarty International-funded Portuguese-speaking African countries Mental Health Implementation Research Training Program, Founding Chair of the Caucus of Global Mental Health and Psychiatry of the American Psychiatric Association, and Medical Director of the Columbia University HIV Mental Health Training Project. Dr. Wainberg is the Chair of the Mental Health HIV Clinical Guidelines Committee of the New York State Department of Health/AIDS Institute, and has been Principal investigator or investigator of multiple NIMH, NIAAA, NIDA and CDC studies addressing the intersection of mental illness, substance use and abuse, HIV-associated fatigue, sexual compulsivity and HIV prevention and adherence to care, as well as the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness, HIV, race/ethnicity and being a sexual minority. Dr. Wainberg is the Principal Investigators of the NIMH-funded PRIDE sSA – Partnerships in Research to Implement and Disseminate Sustainable and Scalable Evidence-based Practices: sub-Saharan Africa which comprises a large scale up study delivering comprehensive efficacious and sustainable psychiatric care in three Provinces of Mozambique, and capacity building of a collaborative research network that will train service providers, investigators and policy-makers from Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia. His research to practice work aims to decrease the global mental health treatment and research gaps.