Eliot SOREL MD is an innovative global health leader, educator, health systems performance expert, and a practicing physician. He co-chairs the Metrics Group of the Healthy Brains Global, and is a co-founder of the Africa Global Mental Health Institute. Dr. Sorel has served as a subject matter expert on World Health Organization (WHO), World Bank Group (WBG), the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Fogarty International Center, the InterAmerican Development Bank (IADB), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) projects.

At the George Washington University, in Washington, DC, Dr. Sorel is the lead physician teaching Global Mental Health in the Milken Institute School of Public Health. He is Clinical Professor of Global Health, Health Policy & Management and of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.

Dr. Sorel works collaboratively with primary care and public health colleagues. The innovative, TOTAL Health approach, a primary care, mental health & public health collaborative integrated model was initiated by Dr. Sorel in 2013 as a means of enhancing quality, access, and sustainability of care. In June 2018, he was the President of the 1st International Perinatal TOTAL Health Congress. Dr. Sorel is the lead author of “Healthcare, Inclusive of Mental Healthcare, Is a Human Right”. It is now APA policy since December 10, 2017. He co-chaired the scientific committee of the Social Determinants of Health/Mental Health & Access to Care World Congress, in Bucharest, Romania in October 2019, www.wasp2019bucharest.org.

Dr. Sorel initiated and led the clinical public health research project on Depression & Comorbidity in Primary Care in China, India, Iran, Romania published in the International Medical Journal and shared at the World Bank Group/WHO Innovators’ Fair in Washington, DC in April 2016.

Dr. Sorel coauthored the APA Statement on Integrated Care of 2016 and the WPA Bucharest Statement on Integrated Care & Collaborative Care of 2015. 21st Century Global Mental Health is the one of seven books published by Dr. Sorel. His most recent publication is "Covid-19: A National & Global Social Contracts Stress Test". He was a subject matter expert to the OECD’s Making Mental Health Count project accessible at www.oecd.org.

Dr. Sorel was honored with Doctor Honoris Causa by Carol Davila Medical University and by the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania in October 2009 and in June 2014, respectively. The President of Romania decorated Dr. Sorel with the Star of Romania Order of Commander in January 2004. The Government of Romania honored Dr. Sorel with the Excellence Prize, at the Romanian Embassy, in Washington, on October 17, 2018. He was honored with the Mental Health Champion Award at the Universal Health and Mental Health for All Congress in Malta, E.U., on December 12, 2018. In December 2019, The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health honored Dr. Sorel as a Pioneer and Leader of Public Health.