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Our Projects

AANAND

Positive psychology intervention to improve ASHA workers' well-being

2021 - 2024

ASPIRE

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

2019 - 2024

AUTHORSHIPRAXIS

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

2024 - Ongoing

AffirmCare

2024 to 2025

Ashramshala

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

2021 - Ongoing

BRIDGE AI

Generative AI for Mental Health Research Accelerator program

Sept.- Dec. 2025

Baatcheet

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

2022 - Ongoing

Being India

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

2023 - 2024

CCAP

Coordinated Care for Alcohol Problems

2024 - 2028

COINCIDE

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

2021 - Ongoing

COMPASS (COMPASS- Longitudinal follow up)

Evaluating long-term outcomes of a community-based non-specialist delivered parent mediated autism intervention

2018 - 2024 (2025-26)

Couples-Based Intervention to Prevent Perinatal Depression (CIPPD)

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

2024-2026

DICC 2.0

Making medical education disability inclusive through health humanities.

2023 - Ongoing

DRISHTi

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

2021 - Ongoing

Dating Violence

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

2019 - Present

Decolonizing Global Mental Health

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

2022 - 2024

Doctors for Equity

Training medical educators on LGTBQIA+ inclusive health care.

2023 - 2024

Domestic Violence Study

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

2019 - 2022

ESSENCE SU

Integrating evidence-based depression treatments into primary care.

2017 - Ongoing

Empower

Using Technology to build India’s Mental Health Workforce.

2021 - 2024

Evaluate

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

2023 - 2024

IMPACT-T

Assisted telepsychiatry to address the care gap among Tibetan refugees.

2021 - Ongoing

IMPRESS

Reducing the treatment gap for depression by addressing both, supply and demand side barriers

2019 - 2025

It's OK To Talk

A digital youth mental health programme providing a nationwide platform that turns conversations into meaningful change

2016 - Ongoing

KM-Photovoice

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

2022 - 2024

Khushee-Mamta

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

2019 - 2026

Kushal Maa

Effectivenss of maternal health interactive education and social support intervention for improving post natal health

2024-27

MADAD

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

2023 - 2026

MANTHAN

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

2025 - 2028

MENTOR

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

2025-2027

METROPOLIS

Peer-led interventions for depression among university students

2024 - 2028

MeWeSports

Preventing adolescent substance use initiation through community sports

January 2020 - Ongoing

Mental Health For Schools (MHFS)

An implementation programme to make schools a happy space, and build life skills among students and educators through school events, classroom workshops and individual counselling

2025- ongoing

NAMASTE


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

2022 - 2027

OptimizeD

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

2023– 2027

Outlive

Engaging and enabling youth to address suicide prevention in India.

2020 - 2024

PEERS

Promoting effective mental healthcare through peer supervision

2021 - 2024

PRESENCE

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

September 2024 to March 2027

PRIDE

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

2016 - 2022

PracticePal

Digital therapy aid: a psychological intervention for depression.

2023 - 2024

QINSHIP

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.

2023 - 2024

Queer Chronicles

Developing queer health narratives.

2023 - Ongoing

RISE

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

2024 - 2026

RM -Enhancing institutional research management capacity

Develop research management capacity in Sangath

2024-2025

RainbowMed

2023 to 2024

SAATHI

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

2023 – ongoing

SAHARA

Supporting All motHers And childRen universAlly

2024 - 2028

SEHER

Strengthening evidence base on school-based interventions for promoting adolescent health.

2013 - 2018

SHARP (SHARP 2)

Scalable Digital Phenotyping of Momentary Cognition in Early Course Psychosis

2020 - 2022 (2023-2026)

STEER

Stressors of Anxiety and Depression in Young People : A cohort study to identify how psychosocial stressors contribute to children and adolescent well-being

2025-2028

STREAM

Scalable transdiagnostic early assessment of mental health.

2019 - Ongoing

SUSTAIN

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

2026-2027

Sambhav

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

2021 - 2022

School Mental Health Promotion Programme (SMHPP)

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

2019 - Ongoing

THRIVE

Transformative Health and Recovery Initiative through Economic aid

2025-2029

TransCare

Understanding experiences of transgender persons in accessing healthcare.

2021 - 2021

TransCare Med-Ed National Conference

National conference on trans-affirmative medical education.

2022

TransCare MedEd

Integrating trans-affirmative healthcare in undergraduate medical curriculum.

2021 - 2022

Youth-LEARN

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.

2025-2027

iHEAR Access Matters

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

2024 - 2025

iHEAR Peers for Equity

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

2022 - 2023

iHEAR RainbowMed

Empowering educators in Western India with LGBTQIA+ inclusive healthcare.

2023 - 2024

iHEAR VaccinEquity 2.0

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

2023 - 2024

iHear TransMHPrep

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

2024 - Ongoing

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