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Members
Strategic Advisory Group
On Mental Health & Wellbeing
Dainus Puras
member- special invitee
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Health (Physical and Mental Health)
Dainius Pūras is a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry and public mental health at Vilnius University, Lithuania. He is also a director of the Human rights monitoring institute – NGO based in Lithuania. Among positions he was holding, Dainius Pūras was a President of Lithuanian Psychiatric Association and Dean of Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University. Dainius Pūras was a member of the UN Committee on the rights of the child (2007-2011) and a UN Special Rapporteur on the right to physical and mental health (2014-2020).
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Balvinder Kumar, IAS (retd)
member
Former Union Secretary, Government of India & Founder, Mind Therapy Trust, New Delhi
Balvinder Kumar belonged to 1981 batch IAS of Uttar Pradesh (U.P) cadre and got superannuated in February 2017 from the post of Union Secretary, Ministry of Mines, Government of India. After superannuation, he briefly served as Vice Chancellor of SGT university, Gurgaon. Later, posted as a Member, Real Estate Regulatory Authority, UP from August 2018 to February 2022. Previously he had also served as CEO & Chairman of NOIDA development authority and Vice Chairman of Delhi Development Authority (DDA). With a diverse and extensive background, he has left an indelible mark in various domains, both at the central and state levels of governance.
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Tejinder Singh Sandhu, IAS, (retd)
member
Former Chief of Zone Office, UNICEF, Nigeria
Mr Tejinder Singh Sandhu a 1981 batch IAS of Rajasthan Cadre has over 37 years of varied multi-sector experience. He has 17 years of work experience in the Indian Administrative Service and 27 years of experience in UNICEF which has given him a unique perspective on development issues, collaboration and partnership development for children and vulnerable groups. He worked in very challenging environments in six Nigerian states and in eleven Indian States: Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharashtra and the seven North-Eastern states. He has Initiated UNICEF India Social Policy work in the India Country Office in 2004 and established a UNICEF office in Nigeria for upstream policy work and for strengthening the investments at the subnational level for social protection and human development.
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Sanjeev Kumar
convenor
Founder and President, SARVARTH
Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, the Founder & President of SARVARTH, is a social-development professional, researcher, social activist and a freelance writer. He is postgraduate in political science from University of Delhi, India. His career, spanning over two decades, showcases a rich blend of expertise in program management, implementation, research, writing, including technical &strategic support at policy level. Mr. Kumar has extensively worked in areas of nutrition, maternal and child health, reproductive& adolescents health, community wellbeing, urban poor, rural development, child protection in India. His contributions extend to collaborations with government departments, international organizations, bilateral, multilateral donor agencies, research institutes, and academia for technical, strategic & policy advocacy support. His accumulated work experience demonstrates his intense engagement with diverse community groups, community institutions, civil society organizations and community at large in different regions of India. His work areas in India include states such as Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Haryana, Maharashtra, and Delhi.
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Jyothi Ravichandran
member
Program Specialist- Mental Health & Psychosocial Support, UNICEF India.
Jyothi Ravichandran is a psychologist with a clinical specialization, experienced in working with children, adolescents, and their families in clinical, school, and community settings. She was the founder of Thrive Foundation, an educational non-profit promoting whole-school mental health in low-income schools in Chennai.
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Dr. Chandan Kumar
member
Department of Policy & Management Studies, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi.
Dr. Chandan Kumar is a distinguished young academician and researcher currently affiliated with the TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERISAS), a Deemed to be University in New Delhi. He possesses expertise in population development research in general, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach and sustainable development perspective. With a robust academic foundation and extensive research experience, Dr. Kumar has committed his career to exploring evidence-based and innovative solutions to pressing developmental challenges, particularly those related to population health and well-being. Dr. Kumar's academic and research acumen has been nurtured and shaped at several internationally renowned institutions, including Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) in Mumbai, the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, the University of Oslo in Norway, and the University of Dundee in Scotland.
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Arvind Kumar Mishra
member
Professor of Social Psychology; School of Social Science (SSS), JNU, New Delhi.
Arvind Kumar Mishra is a Professor of Psychology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has over 30 years of teaching experience. Before joining JNU, he taught at the University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is the co-editor of five books: Interrogating Development: Insights from the Margins (2010) Oxford University Press; School Education, Pluralism and Marginality: Comparative Perspectives (2012) Orient Blackswan; Dynamics of Inclusive Classroom: Social Diversity, Inequality and School Education in India (2017), Orient Blackswan, and The Marginalized Self: Tales of Resistance of a Community (2020), Primus Books. The Social Context of Learning in India: Achievement Gaps and Factors of Poor Learning (2023), Routledge. Some of his research papers have been published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (An APA Journal), the Journal of Social and Political Psychology, and the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
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Ayurdhi Dhar
member
Founder, Mad in South Asia Visiting Faculty: Prescott College, Arizona, USA &Amity University, Mohali, India
Ayurdhi Dhar is the founder and chief editor of Mad in South Asia. She is also a visiting faculty at Prescott College in Arizona and Amity University in Mohali. She is the author of Madness and Subjectivity and has previously served as the newsletter editor of American Psychological Association’s Division 24.
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Members
Strategic Advisory Group
On Mental Health & Wellbeing
Dainus Puras
member- special invitee
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Health (Physical and Mental Health)
Dainius Pūras is a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry and public mental health at Vilnius University, Lithuania. He is also a director of the Human rights monitoring institute – NGO based in Lithuania. Among positions he was holding, Dainius Pūras was a President of Lithuanian Psychiatric Association and Dean of Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University. Dainius Pūras was a member of the UN Committee on the rights of the child (2007-2011) and a UN Special Rapporteur on the right to physical and mental health (2014-2020).
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Balvinder Kumar, IAS (retd)
member
Former Union Secretary, Government of India & Founder, Mind Therapy Trust, New Delhi
Balvinder Kumar belonged to 1981 batch IAS of Uttar Pradesh (U.P) cadre and got superannuated in February 2017 from the post of Union Secretary, Ministry of Mines, Government of India. After superannuation, he briefly served as Vice Chancellor of SGT university, Gurgaon. Later, posted as a Member, Real Estate Regulatory Authority, UP from August 2018 to February 2022. Previously he had also served as CEO & Chairman of NOIDA development authority and Vice Chairman of Delhi Development Authority (DDA). With a diverse and extensive background, he has left an indelible mark in various domains, both at the central and state levels of governance.
Read More
Tejinder Singh Sandhu, IAS, (retd)
member
Former Chief of Zone Office, UNICEF, Nigeria
Mr Tejinder Singh Sandhu a 1981 batch IAS of Rajasthan Cadre has over 37 years of varied multi-sector experience. He has 17 years of work experience in the Indian Administrative Service and 27 years of experience in UNICEF which has given him a unique perspective on development issues, collaboration and partnership development for children and vulnerable groups. He worked in very challenging environments in six Nigerian states and in eleven Indian States: Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharashtra and the seven North-Eastern states. He has Initiated UNICEF India Social Policy work in the India Country Office in 2004 and established a UNICEF office in Nigeria for upstream policy work and for strengthening the investments at the subnational level for social protection and human development.
Read More
Sanjeev Kumar
convenor
Founder and President, SARVARTH
Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, the Founder & President of SARVARTH, is a social-development professional, researcher, social activist and a freelance writer. He is postgraduate in political science from University of Delhi, India. His career, spanning over two decades, showcases a rich blend of expertise in program management, implementation, research, writing, including technical &strategic support at policy level. Mr. Kumar has extensively worked in areas of nutrition, maternal and child health, reproductive& adolescents health, community wellbeing, urban poor, rural development, child protection in India. His contributions extend to collaborations with government departments, international organizations, bilateral, multilateral donor agencies, research institutes, and academia for technical, strategic & policy advocacy support. His accumulated work experience demonstrates his intense engagement with diverse community groups, community institutions, civil society organizations and community at large in different regions of India. His work areas in India include states such as Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Haryana, Maharashtra, and Delhi.
Read More
Jyothi Ravichandran
member
Program Specialist- Mental Health & Psychosocial Support, UNICEF India.
Jyothi Ravichandran is a psychologist with a clinical specialization, experienced in working with children, adolescents, and their families in clinical, school, and community settings. She was the founder of Thrive Foundation, an educational non-profit promoting whole-school mental health in low-income schools in Chennai.
Read More
Dr. Chandan Kumar
member
Department of Policy & Management Studies, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi.
Dr. Chandan Kumar is a distinguished young academician and researcher currently affiliated with the TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERISAS), a Deemed to be University in New Delhi. He possesses expertise in population development research in general, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach and sustainable development perspective. With a robust academic foundation and extensive research experience, Dr. Kumar has committed his career to exploring evidence-based and innovative solutions to pressing developmental challenges, particularly those related to population health and well-being. Dr. Kumar's academic and research acumen has been nurtured and shaped at several internationally renowned institutions, including Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) in Mumbai, the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, the University of Oslo in Norway, and the University of Dundee in Scotland.
Read More
Arvind Kumar Mishra
member
Professor of Social Psychology; School of Social Science (SSS), JNU, New Delhi.
Arvind Kumar Mishra is a Professor of Psychology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has over 30 years of teaching experience. Before joining JNU, he taught at the University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is the co-editor of five books: Interrogating Development: Insights from the Margins (2010) Oxford University Press; School Education, Pluralism and Marginality: Comparative Perspectives (2012) Orient Blackswan; Dynamics of Inclusive Classroom: Social Diversity, Inequality and School Education in India (2017), Orient Blackswan, and The Marginalized Self: Tales of Resistance of a Community (2020), Primus Books. The Social Context of Learning in India: Achievement Gaps and Factors of Poor Learning (2023), Routledge. Some of his research papers have been published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (An APA Journal), the Journal of Social and Political Psychology, and the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Read More
Ayurdhi Dhar
member
Founder, Mad in South Asia Visiting Faculty: Prescott College, Arizona, USA &Amity University, Mohali, India
Ayurdhi Dhar is the founder and chief editor of Mad in South Asia. She is also a visiting faculty at Prescott College in Arizona and Amity University in Mohali. She is the author of Madness and Subjectivity and has previously served as the newsletter editor of American Psychological Association’s Division 24.
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Members
Strategic Advisory Group
On Mental Health & Wellbeing
Dainus Puras
member- special invitee
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Health (Physical and Mental Health)
Dainius Pūras is a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry and public mental health at Vilnius University, Lithuania. He is also a director of the Human rights monitoring institute – NGO based in Lithuania. Among positions he was holding, Dainius Pūras was a President of Lithuanian Psychiatric Association and Dean of Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University. Dainius Pūras was a member of the UN Committee on the rights of the child (2007-2011) and a UN Special Rapporteur on the right to physical and mental health (2014-2020).
Read More
Balvinder Kumar, IAS (retd)
member
Former Union Secretary, Government of India & Founder, Mind Therapy Trust, New Delhi
Balvinder Kumar belonged to 1981 batch IAS of Uttar Pradesh (U.P) cadre and got superannuated in February 2017 from the post of Union Secretary, Ministry of Mines, Government of India. After superannuation, he briefly served as Vice Chancellor of SGT university, Gurgaon. Later, posted as a Member, Real Estate Regulatory Authority, UP from August 2018 to February 2022. Previously he had also served as CEO & Chairman of NOIDA development authority and Vice Chairman of Delhi Development Authority (DDA). With a diverse and extensive background, he has left an indelible mark in various domains, both at the central and state levels of governance.
Read More
Tejinder Singh Sandhu, IAS, (retd)
member
Former Chief of Zone Office, UNICEF, Nigeria
Mr Tejinder Singh Sandhu a 1981 batch IAS of Rajasthan Cadre has over 37 years of varied multi-sector experience. He has 17 years of work experience in the Indian Administrative Service and 27 years of experience in UNICEF which has given him a unique perspective on development issues, collaboration and partnership development for children and vulnerable groups. He worked in very challenging environments in six Nigerian states and in eleven Indian States: Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharashtra and the seven North-Eastern states. He has Initiated UNICEF India Social Policy work in the India Country Office in 2004 and established a UNICEF office in Nigeria for upstream policy work and for strengthening the investments at the subnational level for social protection and human development.
Read More
Sanjeev Kumar
convenor
Founder and President, SARVARTH
Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, the Founder & President of SARVARTH, is a social-development professional, researcher, social activist and a freelance writer. He is postgraduate in political science from University of Delhi, India. His career, spanning over two decades, showcases a rich blend of expertise in program management, implementation, research, writing, including technical &strategic support at policy level. Mr. Kumar has extensively worked in areas of nutrition, maternal and child health, reproductive& adolescents health, community wellbeing, urban poor, rural development, child protection in India. His contributions extend to collaborations with government departments, international organizations, bilateral, multilateral donor agencies, research institutes, and academia for technical, strategic & policy advocacy support. His accumulated work experience demonstrates his intense engagement with diverse community groups, community institutions, civil society organizations and community at large in different regions of India. His work areas in India include states such as Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Haryana, Maharashtra, and Delhi.
Read More
Jyothi Ravichandran
member
Program Specialist- Mental Health & Psychosocial Support, UNICEF India.
Jyothi Ravichandran is a psychologist with a clinical specialization, experienced in working with children, adolescents, and their families in clinical, school, and community settings. She was the founder of Thrive Foundation, an educational non-profit promoting whole-school mental health in low-income schools in Chennai.
Read More
Dr. Chandan Kumar
member
Department of Policy & Management Studies, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi.
Dr. Chandan Kumar is a distinguished young academician and researcher currently affiliated with the TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERISAS), a Deemed to be University in New Delhi. He possesses expertise in population development research in general, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach and sustainable development perspective. With a robust academic foundation and extensive research experience, Dr. Kumar has committed his career to exploring evidence-based and innovative solutions to pressing developmental challenges, particularly those related to population health and well-being. Dr. Kumar's academic and research acumen has been nurtured and shaped at several internationally renowned institutions, including Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) in Mumbai, the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, the University of Oslo in Norway, and the University of Dundee in Scotland.
Read More
Arvind Kumar Mishra
member
Professor of Social Psychology; School of Social Science (SSS), JNU, New Delhi.
Arvind Kumar Mishra is a Professor of Psychology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has over 30 years of teaching experience. Before joining JNU, he taught at the University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is the co-editor of five books: Interrogating Development: Insights from the Margins (2010) Oxford University Press; School Education, Pluralism and Marginality: Comparative Perspectives (2012) Orient Blackswan; Dynamics of Inclusive Classroom: Social Diversity, Inequality and School Education in India (2017), Orient Blackswan, and The Marginalized Self: Tales of Resistance of a Community (2020), Primus Books. The Social Context of Learning in India: Achievement Gaps and Factors of Poor Learning (2023), Routledge. Some of his research papers have been published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (An APA Journal), the Journal of Social and Political Psychology, and the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Read More
Ayurdhi Dhar
member
Founder, Mad in South Asia Visiting Faculty: Prescott College, Arizona, USA &Amity University, Mohali, India
Ayurdhi Dhar is the founder and chief editor of Mad in South Asia. She is also a visiting faculty at Prescott College in Arizona and Amity University in Mohali. She is the author of Madness and Subjectivity and has previously served as the newsletter editor of American Psychological Association’s Division 24.
Read More
Members
Strategic Advisory Group
On Mental Health & Wellbeing
Dainus Puras
member- special invitee
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Health (Physical and Mental Health)
Dainius Pūras is a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry and public mental health at Vilnius University, Lithuania. He is also a director of the Human rights monitoring institute – NGO based in Lithuania. Among positions he was holding, Dainius Pūras was a President of Lithuanian Psychiatric Association and Dean of Faculty of Medicine of Vilnius University. Dainius Pūras was a member of the UN Committee on the rights of the child (2007-2011) and a UN Special Rapporteur on the right to physical and mental health (2014-2020).
Read More
Balvinder Kumar, IAS (retd)
member
Former Union Secretary, Government of India & Founder, Mind Therapy Trust, New Delhi
Balvinder Kumar belonged to 1981 batch IAS of Uttar Pradesh (U.P) cadre and got superannuated in February 2017 from the post of Union Secretary, Ministry of Mines, Government of India. After superannuation, he briefly served as Vice Chancellor of SGT university, Gurgaon. Later, posted as a Member, Real Estate Regulatory Authority, UP from August 2018 to February 2022. Previously he had also served as CEO & Chairman of NOIDA development authority and Vice Chairman of Delhi Development Authority (DDA). With a diverse and extensive background, he has left an indelible mark in various domains, both at the central and state levels of governance.
Read More
Tejinder Singh Sandhu, IAS, (retd)
member
Former Chief of Zone Office, UNICEF, Nigeria
Mr Tejinder Singh Sandhu a 1981 batch IAS of Rajasthan Cadre has over 37 years of varied multi-sector experience. He has 17 years of work experience in the Indian Administrative Service and 27 years of experience in UNICEF which has given him a unique perspective on development issues, collaboration and partnership development for children and vulnerable groups. He worked in very challenging environments in six Nigerian states and in eleven Indian States: Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharashtra and the seven North-Eastern states. He has Initiated UNICEF India Social Policy work in the India Country Office in 2004 and established a UNICEF office in Nigeria for upstream policy work and for strengthening the investments at the subnational level for social protection and human development.
Read More
Sanjeev Kumar
convenor
Founder and President, SARVARTH
Mr. Sanjeev Kumar, the Founder & President of SARVARTH, is a social-development professional, researcher, social activist and a freelance writer. He is postgraduate in political science from University of Delhi, India. His career, spanning over two decades, showcases a rich blend of expertise in program management, implementation, research, writing, including technical &strategic support at policy level. Mr. Kumar has extensively worked in areas of nutrition, maternal and child health, reproductive& adolescents health, community wellbeing, urban poor, rural development, child protection in India. His contributions extend to collaborations with government departments, international organizations, bilateral, multilateral donor agencies, research institutes, and academia for technical, strategic & policy advocacy support. His accumulated work experience demonstrates his intense engagement with diverse community groups, community institutions, civil society organizations and community at large in different regions of India. His work areas in India include states such as Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Haryana, Maharashtra, and Delhi.
Read More
Jyothi Ravichandran
member
Program Specialist- Mental Health & Psychosocial Support, UNICEF India.
Jyothi Ravichandran is a psychologist with a clinical specialization, experienced in working with children, adolescents, and their families in clinical, school, and community settings. She was the founder of Thrive Foundation, an educational non-profit promoting whole-school mental health in low-income schools in Chennai.
Read More
Dr. Chandan Kumar
member
Department of Policy & Management Studies, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi.
Dr. Chandan Kumar is a distinguished young academician and researcher currently affiliated with the TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERISAS), a Deemed to be University in New Delhi. He possesses expertise in population development research in general, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach and sustainable development perspective. With a robust academic foundation and extensive research experience, Dr. Kumar has committed his career to exploring evidence-based and innovative solutions to pressing developmental challenges, particularly those related to population health and well-being. Dr. Kumar's academic and research acumen has been nurtured and shaped at several internationally renowned institutions, including Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) in Mumbai, the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, the University of Oslo in Norway, and the University of Dundee in Scotland.
Read More
Arvind Kumar Mishra
member
Professor of Social Psychology; School of Social Science (SSS), JNU, New Delhi.
Arvind Kumar Mishra is a Professor of Psychology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has over 30 years of teaching experience. Before joining JNU, he taught at the University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is the co-editor of five books: Interrogating Development: Insights from the Margins (2010) Oxford University Press; School Education, Pluralism and Marginality: Comparative Perspectives (2012) Orient Blackswan; Dynamics of Inclusive Classroom: Social Diversity, Inequality and School Education in India (2017), Orient Blackswan, and The Marginalized Self: Tales of Resistance of a Community (2020), Primus Books. The Social Context of Learning in India: Achievement Gaps and Factors of Poor Learning (2023), Routledge. Some of his research papers have been published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (An APA Journal), the Journal of Social and Political Psychology, and the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Read More
Ayurdhi Dhar
member
Founder, Mad in South Asia Visiting Faculty: Prescott College, Arizona, USA &Amity University, Mohali, India
Ayurdhi Dhar is the founder and chief editor of Mad in South Asia. She is also a visiting faculty at Prescott College in Arizona and Amity University in Mohali. She is the author of Madness and Subjectivity and has previously served as the newsletter editor of American Psychological Association’s Division 24.
Read More