Abhinav Anne is a biological public health researcher, youth mental health advocate, and journalist driven by a singular mission: to make systems more humane. As the youngest appointed advisor to the World Health Organization in history, he represents the United States on the WHO Youth Council, where he advises the Director-General on mental health equity, climate-driven health disparities, and youth-centered policy. He co-leads global initiatives addressing how environmental destruction fuels trauma and mental illness, especially among vulnerable communities.

In the U.S., Abhinav is spearheading legislation to integrate comprehensive mental health education into school curricula, working alongside Illinois lawmakers to institutionalize care—not just crisis. Globally, he is helping shape a UN-led Mental Health Bill of Rights, advocating for a world where care is not a privilege but a baseline.

At the intersection of policy and science, he conducts research at Stanford’s SRITA Lab on how the tobacco industry targets marginalized communities and at MIT’s Feng Lab on the neurobiology of psychiatric illness. He has bylines in the Chicago Tribune, UNICEF, Channel Kindness, and Hadron Magazine, where his reporting explores mental health stigma, generational trauma, politics, and youth activism.

Writing, for him, is a way to question systems, amplify silenced voices, and reimagine the world as it could be. He writes to ask better questions—about power, pain, and possibility.