FounderThe Friendship Bench
Dixon is the founder of The Friendship Bench, a low intensity psychological intervention delivered predominantly by trained community grandmothers in Zimbabwe and beyond. In 2023 over 2000 grandmothers provided therapy to over 200 000 clients from wooden park benches in Zimbabwe.
He is also a professor of psychiatry and global mental health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the University of Zimbabwe. He is current director of the African Mental Health Research Initiative (AMARI) which is training over 200 PhD/Post Doc Fellows across Africa in culturally relevant mental health topics across Africa. He is the recipient of the 2023 John McNulty Prize and an Aspen New Voices Fellow (2017).