Professor Anil Thapliyal trained as Family Therapist in NZ and is widely respected by his peers for his long-standing unwavering commitment to create a responsive digital mental health ecosystem to ensure timely access to care, support and treatment at the time and place of service users choosing. He believes that “we must focus on the service user, their families, and carers. If the digital mental health solutions do not work for them, then they do not work at all”.
He is the Founder and Executive Director of the eMental Health International Collaborative (eMHIC), which is now widely regarded as the world’s leading Think Tank, and the global peak body, in the niche digital mental health domain for promoting international collaboration as a key method to efficiently develop and implement safe and effective scalable Digital Mental health solutions in sustainable ways. He works closely with the governments of the USA, Canada, Australia, England, Sweden, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Denmark, New Zealand, Singapore, Philippines and global peak bodies such as UNICEF, WHO, UN, APEC Digital Hub for Mental Health and World Federation of Public Health Associations.
In recognition of his expertise in the eMental Health domain he was appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand in 2014. His work has received several national and international awards in areas as diverse as Innovation, Social Responsibility and Ethics & Compliance for his services to the digital mental health domain development globally. including one from Rt Honorable Jacinda Ardern, former Prime Minister of New Zealand.
He served as an advisor to the special committees at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in New Zealand on Mental Health and Data and Digital. He has been a key advisor to the eMental Health Section at the World Psychiatric Association and UNICEF. In 2020 he was appointed a Leadership Fellow at St George’s House, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, UK. He is also the proud father of three grown up boys and an avid scuba diver.
