Bibhav Acharya, MD
Associate Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

He has led studies funded by philanthropic sources and NIH, including adapting and implementing the collaborative care model; training community health workers in using digital health interventions for chronic diseases such as depression, anxiety, hypertension, diabetes, and HIV; training nurses to reduce alcohol use and intimate partner violence using motivational interviewing and behavioral couple’s therapy; and engaging husbands and mothers-in-law to reduce domestic violence and depression among young married women.

He is the Founding Director of UCSF Psychiatry HEAL Fellowship in Global Mental Health (http://tiny.ucsf.edu/GMH), which trains psychiatrists as leaders in clinical practice, capacity building, and health systems-strengthening in low-resource settings in the United States (Navajo Nation) and abroad (including rural Nepal and Mexico).

He is the co-founder and mental health advisor of Possible (www.possiblehealth.org), a non-profit organization that has been testing and scaling up innovative health interventions with over $35 million invested since 2007 in partnership with the Nepali Government and local organizations.

Bibhav was born and raised in Nepal and arrived in the United States to attend Haverford College on a full scholarship. He was a Howard Hughes Science and Society Scholar in public health studying HIV interventions in Thailand. He has conducted research for the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute to improve the quality of care for federally-funded HIV services. He received his MD from Yale University and research residency training in general adult psychiatry from University of California, San Francisco, where he conducted research under NIMH-R25 and completed a certificate program in Implementation Science from UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

• Observation of WZγ Production in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13  TeV with the ATLAS Detector.
  Physical review letters 2024 Aad G, Abbott B, Abeling K, Abicht NJ, Abidi SH, Aboulhorma A, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Abulaiti Y, Abusleme Hoffman AC, Acharya BS, Adam Bourdarios C, Adamczyk L, Adamek L, Addepalli SV, Addison MJ, …
• Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass from the H→γγ and H→ZZ^{*}→4ℓ Decay Channels with the ATLAS Detector Using sqrt[s]=7, 8, and 13 TeV pp Collision Data.
  Physical review letters 2023 Aad G, Abbott B, Abeling K, Abicht NJ, Abidi SH, Aboulhorma A, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Abulaiti Y, Acharya BS, Adam Bourdarios C, Adamczyk L, Addepalli SV, Addison MJ, Adelman J, Adiguzel A, Adye T, …
• Search for Dark Photons in Rare Z Boson Decays with the ATLAS Detector.
  Physical review letters 2023 Aad G, Abbott B, Abeling K, Abicht NJ, Abidi SH, Aboulhorma A, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Abulaiti Y, Abusleme Hoffman AC, Acharya BS, Adam Bourdarios C, Adamczyk L, Adamek L, Addepalli SV, Addison MJ, …
• Observation of Single-Top-Quark Production in Association with a Photon Using the ATLAS Detector.
  Physical review letters 2023 Aad G, Abbott B, Abbott DC, Abeling K, Abidi SH, Aboulhorma A, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Abulaiti Y, Abusleme Hoffman AC, Acharya BS, Achkar B, Adam L, Adam Bourdarios C, Adamczyk L, Adamek L, Addepalli …
• Evidence-based, multilevel interventions for sustained behaviour change.
  The Lancet. Global health 2023 Acharya B, Sapkota S
• Measurement of Suppression of Large-Radius Jets and Its Dependence on Substructure in Pb+Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02  TeV with the ATLAS Detector.
  Physical review letters 2023 Aad G, Abbott B, Abeling K, Abidi SH, Aboulhorma A, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Abulaiti Y, Abusleme Hoffman AC, Acharya BS, Adam Bourdarios C, Adamczyk L, Adamek L, Addepalli SV, Adelman J, Adiguzel A, …
• Measurement of the Sensitivity of Two-Particle Correlations in pp Collisions to the Presence of Hard Scatterings.
  Physical review letters 2023 Aad G, Abbott B, Abeling K, Abicht NJ, Abidi SH, Aboulhorma A, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Abulaiti Y, Abusleme Hoffman AC, Acharya BS, Adam Bourdarios C, Adamczyk L, Adamek L, Addepalli SV, Addison MJ, …
• Observation of an Excess of Dicharmonium Events in the Four-Muon Final State with the ATLAS Detector.
  Physical review letters 2023 Aad G, Abbott B, Abeling K, Abicht NJ, Abidi SH, Aboulhorma A, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Abulaiti Y, Abusleme Hoffman AC, Acharya BS, Adam Bourdarios C, Adamczyk L, Adamek L, Addepalli SV, Addison MJ, …
• Observation of the γγ→ττ Process in Pb+Pb Collisions and Constraints on the τ-Lepton Anomalous Magnetic Moment with the ATLAS Detector.
  Physical review letters 2023 Aad G, Abbott B, Abbott DC, Abeling K, Abidi SH, Aboulhorma A, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Abulaiti Y, Abusleme Hoffman AC, Acharya BS, Achkar B, Adam L, Adam Bourdarios C, Adamczyk L, Adamek L, Addepalli …
• Strong Constraints on Jet Quenching in Centrality-Dependent p+Pb Collisions at 5.02 TeV from ATLAS.
  Physical review letters 2023 Aad G, Abbott B, Abbott DC, Abeling K, Abidi SH, Aboulhorma A, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Abulaiti Y, Abusleme Hoffman AC, Acharya BS, Achkar B, Adam L, Adam Bourdarios C, Adamczyk L, Adamek L, Addepalli …
• Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons in Decays of W Bosons Using a Dilepton Displaced Vertex in sqrt[s]=13  TeV pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector.
  Physical review letters 2023 Aad G, Abbott B, Abbott DC, Abed Abud A, Abeling K, Abhayasinghe DK, Abidi SH, Aboulhorma A, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Abulaiti Y, Abusleme Hoffman AC, Acharya BS, Achkar B, Adam L, Adam Bourdarios C, …
• Test of CP Invariance in Higgs Boson Vector-Boson-Fusion Production Using the H→γγ Channel with the ATLAS Detector.
  Physical review letters 2023 Aad G, Abbott B, Abbott DC, Abeling K, Abidi SH, Aboulhorma A, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Abulaiti Y, Abusleme Hoffman AC, Acharya BS, Achkar B, Adam Bourdarios C, Adamczyk L, Adamek L, Addepalli SV, …
• The relationship between the gendered norm of eating last and mental health of newly married women in Nepal: A longitudinal study.
  Maternal & child nutrition 2023 Gopalakrishnan L, Diamond-Smith N, Acharya B, Puri M, Bertozzi SM
• Observation of WWW Production in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13  TeV with the ATLAS Detector.
  Physical review letters 2022 Aad G, Abbott B, Abbott DC, Abed Abud A, Abeling K, Abhayasinghe DK, Abidi SH, Aboulhorma A, Abramowicz H, Abreu H, Abulaiti Y, Abusleme Hoffman AC, Acharya BS, Achkar B, Adam L, Adam Bourdarios C, …
• Implementing Collaborative Care in Low-Resource Government, Research, and Academic Settings in Rural Nepal.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2022 Jackson J, Dangal R, Dangal B, Gupta T, Jirel S, Khadka S, Rimal P, Acharya B
• The path to global equity in mental health care in the context of COVID-19.
  Lancet (London, England) 2021 Kola L, Kohrt BA, Acharya B, Mutamba BB, Kieling C, Kumar M, Sunkel C, Zhang W, Hanlon C
• Collaborative care model for depression in rural Nepal: a mixed-methods implementation research study.
  BMJ open 2021 Rimal P, Choudhury N, Agrawal P, Basnet M, Bohara B, Citrin D, Dhungana SK, Gauchan B, Gupta P, Gupta TK, Halliday S, Kadayat B, Mahar R, Maru D, Nguyen V, Poudel S, Raut A, Rawal J, Sapkota S, …
• Cross-cultural adaptation of motivational interviewing for use in rural Nepal.
  BMC psychology 2021 Rimal P, Khadka S, Bogati B, Chaudhury J, Rawat LK, Bhat KC, Manandhar P, Citrin D, Maru D, Ekstrand ML, Swar SB, Aryal A, Kohrt B, Shrestha S, Acharya B
• Costing Analysis of a Pilot Community Health Worker Program in Rural Nepal.
  Global health, science and practice 2020 Nepal P, Schwarz R, Citrin D, Thapa A, Acharya B, Acharya Y, Aryal A, Baum A, Bhandari V, Bhatt L, Bhattarai D, Choudhury N, Dangal B, Dhimal M, Dhungana SK, Gauchan B, Halliday S, Kalaunee SP, Kunwar…
• Treatment recommendations made by a consultant psychiatrist to improve the quality of care in a collaborative mental health intervention in rural Nepal.
  BMC psychiatry 2020 Rimal P, Maru D, Chwastiak L, Agrawal P, Rao D, Swar S, Citrin D, Acharya B
• An integrated intervention for chronic care management in rural Nepal: protocol of a type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study.
  Trials 2020 Schwarz D, Dhungana S, Kumar A, Acharya B, Agrawal P, Aryal A, Baum A, Choudhury N, Citrin D, Dangal B, Dhimal M, Gauchan B, Gupta T, Halliday S, Karmacharya B, Kishore S, Koirala B, Kshatriya U, …
• Moving the Global Mental Health Debate Forward: How a Structural Competency Framework Can Apply to Global Mental Health Training.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2019 Gajaria A, Izenberg JM, Nguyen V, Rimal P, Acharya B, Hansen H
• Designing and implementing an integrated non-communicable disease primary care intervention in rural Nepal.
  BMJ global health 2019 Kumar A, Schwarz D, Acharya B, Agrawal P, Aryal A, Choudhury N, Citrin D, Dangal B, Deukmedjian G, Dhimal M, Dhungana S, Gauchan B, Gupta T, Halliday S, Jha D, Kalaunee SP, Karmacharya B, Kishore S, …
• Understanding perceptions of global healthcare experiences on provider values and practices in the USA: a qualitative study among global health physicians and program directors.
  BMJ open 2019 Matthews-Trigg N, Citrin D, Halliday S, Acharya B, Maru S, Bezruchka S, Maru D
• Transition to active learning in rural Nepal: an adaptable and scalable curriculum development model.
  BMC medical education 2019 Mehanni S, Wong L, Acharya B, Agrawal P, Aryal A, Basnet M, Citrin D, Dangal B, Deukmedjian G, Dhungana SK, Gauchan B, Gupta TK, Halliday S, Kalaunee SP, Kshatriya U, Kumar A, Maru D, Maru S, Nguyen V…
• Competencies for Global Mental Health: Developing Training Objectives for a Post-Graduate Fellowship for Psychiatrists.
  Annals of global health 2018 Buzza C, Fiskin A, Campbell J, Guo J, Izenberg J, Kamholz B, Hung E, Acharya B
• Delivering Collaborative Care in Rural Settings: Integrating Remote Teleconsultation and Local Supervision in Rural Nepal.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2018 Swar S, Rimal P, Gauchan B, Maru D, Yang Y, Acharya B
• Developing and deploying a community healthcare worker-driven, digitally- enabled integrated care system for municipalities in rural Nepal.
  Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2018 Citrin D, Thapa P, Nirola I, Pandey S, Kunwar LB, Tenpa J, Acharya B, Rayamazi H, Thapa A, Maru S, Raut A, Poudel S, Timilsina D, Dhungana SK, Adhikari M, Khanal MN, Pratap Kc N, Acharya B, Karki KB, …
• Translating mental health diagnostic and symptom terminology to train health workers and engage patients in cross-cultural, non-English speaking populations.
  International journal of mental health systems 2017 Acharya B, Basnet M, Rimal P, Citrin D, Hirachan S, Swar S, Thapa P, Pandit J, Pokharel R, Kohrt B
• Surgical referral coordination from a first-level hospital: a prospective case study from rural Nepal.
  BMC health services research 2017 Fleming M, King C, Rajeev S, Baruwal A, Schwarz D, Schwarz R, Khadka N, Pande S, Khanal S, Acharya B, Benton A, Rogers SO, Panizales M, Gyorki D, McGee H, Shaye D, Maru D
• Collaborative Care for Mental Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A WHO Health Systems Framework Assessment of Three Programs.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2017 Acharya B, Ekstrand M, Rimal P, Ali MK, Swar S, Srinivasan K, Mohan V, Unützer J, Chwastiak LA
• Developing a scalable training model in global mental health: pilot study of a video-assisted training Program for Generalist Clinicians in Rural Nepal.
  Global mental health (Cambridge, England) 2017 Acharya B, Tenpa J, Basnet M, Hirachan S, Rimal P, Choudhury N, Thapa P, Citrin D, Halliday S, Swar SB, van Dyke C, Gauchan B, Sharma B, Hung E, Ekstrand M
• Partnerships in mental healthcare service delivery in low-resource settings: developing an innovative network in rural Nepal.
  Globalization and health 2017 Acharya B, Maru D, Schwarz R, Citrin D, Tenpa J, Hirachan S, Basnet M, Thapa P, Swar S, Halliday S, Kohrt B, Luitel NP, Hung E, Gauchan B, Pokharel R, Ekstrand M
• Power, potential, and pitfalls in global health academic partnerships: review and reflections on an approach in Nepal.
  Global health action 2017 Citrin D, Mehanni S, Acharya B, Wong L, Nirola I, Sherchan R, Gauchan B, Karki KB, Singh DR, Shamasunder S, Le P, Schwarz D, Schwarz R, Dangal B, Dhungana SK, Maru S, Mahar R, Thapa P, Raut A, …
• Recommendations from primary care providers for integrating mental health in a primary care system in rural Nepal.
  BMC health services research 2016 Acharya B, Tenpa J, Thapa P, Gauchan B, Citrin D, Ekstrand M
• Consultant Psychiatrists' Role in Ensuring High-Quality Care From Nonspecialists.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2016 Acharya B, Swar SB
• The Mental Health Education Gap among Primary Care Providers in Rural Nepal.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2016 Acharya B, Hirachan S, Mandel JS, van Dyke C
• Including International Medical Graduates in Global Mental Health Training.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2015 Acharya B, Hirachan S
• Crossing the quality chasm in resource-limited settings.
  Globalization and health 2012 Maru DS, Andrews J, Schwarz D, Schwarz R, Acharya B, Ramaiya A, Karelas G, Rajbhandari R, Mate K, Shilpakar S
• On partnership.
  Narrative inquiry in bioethics 2012 Schwarz R, Maru DS, Schwarz D, Acharya B, Acharya B, Rajbhandari R, Andrews J, Karelas G, Sharma R, Arnoldy M
• Implementing a systems-oriented morbidity and mortality conference in remote rural Nepal for quality improvement.
  BMJ quality & safety 2011 Schwarz D, Schwarz R, Gauchan B, Andrews J, Sharma R, Karelas G, Rajbhandari R, Acharya B, Mate K, Bista A, Bista MG, Sox C, Smith-Rohrberg Maru D
• Global health delivery 2.0: using open-access technologies for transparency and operations research.
  PLoS medicine 2009 Maru DS, Sharma A, Andrews J, Basu S, Thapa J, Oza S, Bashyal C, Acharya B, Schwarz R