Rakesh Singh, public health professional, has substantial experience in academia and research. He has been honored with Academic Excellence Award by the President of Nepal in 2014 for his postgraduate course in public health (completed in May 2013). His professional career spans nine years of work as a faculty at various medical and health sciences universities/colleges in Nepal including Tribhuvan University, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Purbanchal University and Pokhara University. He excels in mental health research with especial interest in adolescent and global mental health. He has considerable experience in implementing collaborative large scale researches at global level, particularly in mental health. He has around three dozens of publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals including Cochrane systematic review. He has been currently engaged in Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) Nepal as Research Coordinator for a multi-nation research project - ALIVE (improving Adolescent mentaL health by reducing Impact of poVErty). He has also been working as a visiting faculty in the department of community medicine and public health at KIST Medical College, Nepal. He has been extensively involved as reviewer for various journals including PLOS one, PLOS ntds, BMJ open, SAGE open, Personality and Individual Differences, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Frontiers in Public Health, Psychiatria Danubina, Stigma and Health, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Global Psychiatry, Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, Alpha Psychiatry, etc.