Empower

The Empower Team

Principal Investigator

Vikram Patel, M.D., Ph.D., The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School

Sangath Team

Anant Bhan, Sangath-Site Principal Investigator, Adjunct Visiting Professor in the Centre for Ethics, Yenepoya University, Mangaluru, India
Udita Joshi, Research Fellow
Aakrushi Bramhbhatt, Research Assistant
Darshana Rathore, Research Assistant

Science Council

Christopher Fairburn M.Phil., M.D., Chair, Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

Vikram Patel M.D., Ph.D., Principal Investigator, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School

Myrna Weissman Ph.D., Diane Goldman Kemper Family Professor of Epidemiology (in Psychiatry), Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

John Weisz Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Professor, Harvard Medical School

Richard Velleman Ph.D., Co-Director, Addictions Research Group, India; Emeritus Professor of Mental Health Research, University of Bath, UK

Pim Cuijpers Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical, Neuro, and Development Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Tom Insel M.D., Former Director of NIMH; President and Co-Founder, Mindstrong Health

Steering Committee

Joshua Chauvin, M.Sc., D.Phil., Director, 7Cups.Org; Associate Fellow, Evidence-Based Practice Unit; UCL Chair and Co-Founder, It Gets Brighter

Glen Moriarty Psy.D., CEO and Founder, 7Cups.Org

Vikram Patel M.D., Ph.D., Principal Investigator, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust, Principal Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School

John Naslund Ph.D., Instructor in Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Satchit Balsari M.D., MPH, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Sheena Wood, Research Assistant, Harvard Medical School

Partners

Harvard Medical School
Argusoft, Gujarat
SEWA Rural, Gujarat
Government of Gujarat
Government of Madhya Pradesh