Jasmine Kalha is a Program Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy, ILS, Pune. Trained in Social Work and Sociology, she has worked on innovative, evidence-based implementation research interventions at-scale on mental health and human rights in low resource settings. She co-leads the scale-up, evaluation and implementation of Atmiyata, a community-led intervention to enable access to mental health and social care. The intervention uses a stepped care model using community volunteers. At present, the intervention covers approximately 3.5 million rural
adult population across seven districts in India.

Previously, she has worked on peer support, recovery, and health systems reform through WHO’s QualityRights scale-up in Gujarat, India. She continues to provide capacity building support to countries on the QualityRights framework.