Our Projects

Positive psychology intervention to improve ASHA workers' well-being

A universal intervention promoting responsive caregiving to give children the best start in their lives.

A qualitative study exploring the experiences of researchers in navigating authorship issues and challenges.

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Enhancing mental well-being of students, parents, and teachers in 24 ashram shalas across the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra.

Peer-delivered web-based storytelling for youth with mental health problems.

An international initiative to understand the mental health and well-being needs of young people and identify priority areas for intervention.

Coordinated Care for Alcohol Problems

Adapation and testing of a couples-based intervention to prevent perinatal depression in rural India

Nutritional, psychosocial, and environmental determinants of Neurodevelopment and Child Mental Health

Evaluating a community based non-specialist delivered autism intervention.

Making medical education disability inclusive through health humanities.

A platform that hosts online courses on health research ethics, health communication, and social issues in health research.

Developing and evaluating an intervention to improve the mental health effects of dating violence among adolescents and young people in India.

Capturing Lay Counsellor Experiences to Inform Scaling-up of a Perinatal Depression program in rural Rajasthan, India.

Training medical educators on LGTBQIA+ inclusive health care.

Evaluating 'Pahal': a new clinical intervention for domestic violence survivors in Goa, part of a multi-country study.

Integrating evidence-based depression treatments into primary care.

Using Technology to build India’s Mental Health Workforce.

Evaluating the adoption of digital NCD portal for health system strengthening.

Assisted telepsychiatry to address the care gap among Tibetan refugees.

To explore the implementation of two scalable models- delivery of an evidence-based psychosocial intervention in primary health centres and a community-based intervention in a low-and-middle-income country context to reduce treatment gap for depression by addressing both, supply and demand side barriers

It's Ok To Talk (IOTT) is a Digital Youth Mental Health Program- A nationwide platform turning conversations into change for youth mental health.

Using Photovoice and Critical Social Theory to Help Develop Culturally Safe Services for Perinatal Depression in Rural India.

A lay-counsellor delivered treatment for perinatal depression in rural Rajasthan, India

To adapt and test the feasibility and acceptability of a community-based, peer-facilitated psychological treatment for adolescents with anxiety and depression in India

Using participatory action research and theory of change to integrate depression care services at rural primary care clinics in India: A cluster-randomized controlled implementation-effectiveness study

A school-based mental health promotion program for reducing suicidal thoughts and behaviors among adolescents in Madhya Pradesh

Peer-led interventions for depression among university students

Preventing adolescent substance use initiation through community sports

A community-based pathway to support early detection and intervention for children with NeuroDevelopmental Disabilities (NDDs)

Improving outcomes in depression in primary care in a low-resource setting.

Engaging and enabling youth to address suicide prevention in India.

Promoting effective mental healthcare through peer supervision.

Enhancing adolescent mental health through resilience, substance abuse prevention, and school-based workshops

Brief, scalable, early intervention in schools for emotional problems in adolescents.

Digital therapy aid: a psychological intervention for depression.

A qualitative study to understand forms of kinship, their meaning, and significance in the lives of queer adults aged 50 and above, in urban India.

Developing queer health narratives.

Universal adolescent-focused resilience promoting intervention delivered by peer facilitators.

Develop research management capacity in Sangath

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SAATHI aims to create a digital training program for peer supporters helping individuals with severe mental health problems.

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Enhancing Schizophrenia Care: Integrating Psychosocial Rehabilitation with Digital Tools in India's Primary Care
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Strengthening evidence base on school-based interventions for promoting adolescent health.

Smartphone health assessment for relapse prevention (SHARP) is an international, digital health study.

Scalable Digital Phenotyping of Momentary Cognition in Early Course Psychosis

Enhancing mental wellbeing of students, parents and teachers in 90 primary and secondary schools under PCMC and PMC.

Scalable transdiagnostic early assessment of mental health.

To determine how we can sustain interventions beyond the funding cycle, when external support from an NGO will be limited due to end of funding support

Developing a scalable digital program for stress reduction and mental health promotion for community health workers in rural India.

Transformative Health and Recovery Initiative through Economic aid

Understanding experiences of transgender persons in accessing healthcare.

National conference on trans-affirmative medical education.

Integrating trans-affirmative healthcare in undergraduate medical curriculum.

Youth- LEARN (Lived Experience and Research Network) is a national initiative bringing together youth with lived experience and neurodivergence, and researchers to transform mental health research in India.

Promoting accessibility and inclusion, participatory action research on disability access to public sector health facilities in MP and Goa.

Community-led initiative fostering a LGBTQIA+ and disability researcher-advocates cohort.

Empowering educators in Western India with LGBTQIA+ inclusive healthcare.

Understanding the behavioural and social drivers of vaccination in Transgender, intersex and disability communities.

Identifying trans affirmative best practices in providing care during public health emergencies.