Manasi Kumar

Manasi Kumar is working as a Senior Implementation Scientist at the Brain and Mind Institute, Aga Khan University. As an affiliate senior lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, she is involved in NIH funded research on peripartum adolescents living with depression. She has wide experience mentoring lay, non-specialist and specialist health workers in WHO’s mhGAP as well as low intensity mental health evidence-based interventions. For last 10 years her focus has been on strengthening teaching of mental and behavioral sciences in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education programs in various East African and South Asian geographies. She works on disparities in health systems in lower- and middle-income countries with a focus on mental health systems strengthening and maternal, child and adolescent mental health research. She is an affiliate associate professor at Department of Global Health in University of Washington Seattle, US and University College London. She is supported by Fogarty International Centre, NIMH, UNICEF and UK’s NIHR research grant mechanisms.