Humanising Mental Healthcare: The Urgency for a Rights-Based Approach to Mental Health in India
A rights-based approach recognizes mental health as a fundamental human right.
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Business Wire
Nov 1, 2022
India Delegation Speaks on Mental Health at the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting 2022
ETI was invited to speak the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting 2022. The Indian delegation composed to technical experts and policymakers...
The Indian Express
Sep 9, 2022
Acknowledging submerged mental health trauma: Understanding the predicament of Indian housewives
Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar and Dr Sukriti Chauhan write "Women are expected to be primary caregivers in most social settings but the same...
The Indian Express
Sep 6, 2022
Omnipresent but de-prioritised: Understanding the many faces of mental health and suicide in India
The medicalised nature of suicide tends to override its sociocultural embeddedness, and this is why the community’s vital ability to...
Business Wire
Aug 9, 2022
A Roundtable Discussion on Approaches to Suicide Prevention in India Held in New Delhi
Esteemed Parliamentarians and Domain Experts discuss a pathway for a national suicide prevention policy and building a positive...
The Indian Express
Jun 3, 2022
Building a supportive environment for mental healthcare in India
Only when we start accepting, beyond the shades of gender, class, and stigma, will we be able to build a nation ready to respond to...
The Indian Express
Apr 1, 2022
Mental Health in India: Need for a National Suicide Prevention Strategy that Targets the Youth
Despite being entirely preventable, India has been increasingly losing individuals to suicide. The severity of the crisis worsened by the...
The Indian Express
Mar 18, 2022
Mental Health in India: Well-being of the youth during Covid-19
Recognising the needs and rights of the youth to receive mental healthcare is the need of the hour. If left unaddressed, the economic...
The Indian Express
Mar 3, 2022
Mental health in India: Community-based interventions as the answer to India’s mental health burden
An efficient and robust community-integrated model will have the ability to build a response system of cadres of community volunteers and...
The Indian Express
Feb 17, 2022
Mental health in India: Impact of social media on young Indians
The discussion on mental health in India is not addressed seriously, and faces stigma and neglect. While challenges faced by the youth...
The Indian Express
Feb 10, 2022
Mental health in India: A perspective
Mental health literacy is the gateway for mental health interventions in India. There is a lack of awareness which can lead to...
Economic Times
Jan 30, 2022
The world spends upto18% of its GDP on mental health, India spends only 0.05%: Dr Lakshmi Vijaykumar
Watch Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Founder, SNEHA in her interview with ET Healthworld
ETI & PATH
Jan 17, 2022
COVID 19 and Long COVID Impact: Need to prioritize mental health in India
As a possible third wave of the pandemic looms, we must note that the COVID-19 virus affects people differently. A continued existence of...
Economic Times
Jan 12, 2022
India has the highest suicide rate in the world: Dr. Dalbir Singh
Dr Dalbir Singh, President, Policymaker’s Forum for Mental Health talks to Mr Shahid Akhter, Editor, Economic Times about mental health...
Economic Times
Jan 7, 2022
A commitment to addressing the challenge of suicide and mental health in India
India has one of the highest burdens of mental health disorders with 56 million cases of depression, 38 million cases of anxiety...
ETI & PATH
Dec 10, 2021
Breaking the Barriers: Pathways to addressing mental health and long-COVID impact in India
ETI and PATH collaborated to release 'Breaking the Barriers: Pathways to addressing mental health and long-COVID impact in India
Business Wire
Dec 9, 2021
Roundtable Discussion on Mental Health & Suicide Prevention: By Policymakers Forum for Mental Health
The Lancet Psychiatry, ETI and SNEHA organised A roundtable for discussion on mental health and suicide prevention in India. The...
Dr Virander Singh Chauhan & Shireen Yachu
Aug 22, 2021
Despite the pandemic, education should continue: Evidence for safely re-opening schools
Considering that the COVID-19 virus has firmly established itself, there will be no perfectly safe time to reopen schools. We stand at...
The Indian Express
Jul 28, 2021
Addressing adolescent mental health need of the hour: Experts
Dr Virander Singh Singh Chauhan, Founder, ETI, said the COVID-19 pandemic had had a debilitating impact not only on physical health but...
The Indian Express
Jul 18, 2021
‘How could a psychiatrist have helped me out?’ Transgenders share struggle with mental health issues
"In a country where belonging to the ‘other’ gender category is still taboo, transgenders battle for their self-respect on a daily...
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