Miriam Sequeira is a mental health professional with over a decade of experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based psychological interventions in community and low-resource settings across India and internationally. She is the Intervention Programme Lead within Sangath’s Addictions and related-Research Group (ARG), where she provides strategic leadership and oversight to multiple intervention development and implementation teams.

Miriam has played key leadership roles at Sangath, including as a member of the Executive Council and the Senior Management Team of ARG, contributing to organisational strategy, governance, and policy development. She has served as Site Principal Investigator for international research collaborations and as a clinical consultant on large-scale implementation studies, including projects embedded within the Tamil Nadu Aging Panel Study led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professors Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee.

Her work spans addictions, depression, ageing, adolescent mental health, and HIV, with a strong focus on task-sharing, digital health interventions, and strengthening the capacity of non-specialist health workers. Miriam has led the intervention teams of several randomised controlled trials funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (USA), Medical Research Council (UK), Wellcome Trust, and King’s College London.

She holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology. Miriam has published extensively in leading global mental health journals and regularly contributes to training, supervision, and policy-relevant work at national and international levels. Her work is grounded in a commitment to equity, ethical implementation, and making high-quality mental health care accessible to underserved populations.