Babis Andreadis, a professor of clinical medicine at UCSF who the Baszuckis announced will head the initiative. Jan Baszucki’s father recovered from a near-fatal lymphoma after undergoing treatment by Dr. Their inspiration again came from personal experience. The Baszuckis also donated $6 million over five years to launch the Baszucki Lymphoma Therapeutics Initiative at UC San Francisco, which supports research to help fight the cancer. The disorder affects some 45 million people globally. In January, the fund partnered with the Milken Institute–a think tank founded by billionaire Michael Milken that hosts the annual conference–to give $9 million in grants to 45 scientists around the world for research grants for bipolar disorder research. The couple’s Baszucki Brain Research Fund invests in technology to prevent and treat bipolar disorder and other mental health conditions.
In the U.S., total mental health spending accounts for less than 5.5% of all health spending, per a 2019 report by research firm Open Minds.
According to a recent World Health Organization report, governments tend to spend around 2% of their health budgets on mental health.
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