Dr Sunny Patel: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- former senior official at Samhsa and associate professor at the Thrive Center for Children, Families, and Communities at Georgetown
- Quoted on
- Mental health
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“This reinstatement of funds is a good thing for the American people and we should view these actions in their whole. This administration has shown its political project to systematically dismantle the behavioral health system.”
Where Dr Sunny Patel has been quoted
- US health officials reverse course and reinstate $1.9bn to mental health and substance usetheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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