WHO WE ARE

Sangath is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization committed to improving health across the lifespan by empowering existing community resources to provide appropriate physical, psychological and social therapies.

What we do

We contribute to public health through path-breaking community-based research and intervention programs that strive to address the pressing mental health treatment gap within the country. We have pioneered a task-shifting strategy that incorporates relatively low-cost human resources, by empowering ordinary people and community health workers, to deliver mental healthcare with appropriate training and supervision from experts.

Awards and Recognitions

2008 MacArthur Foundation International Prize for Creative and Effective Institutions

2016 WHO Public Health Champion of India

Citations in 4 recent Lancet series and two World Health Reports (2001 and 2005)

Abhijit Nadkarni

Lead Investigator

Co-Director, Addictions Research Group, Sangath, India | Associate Professor of Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

Urvita Bhatia

Investigator

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Research Fellow, Addictions Research Group, Sangath, India | Doctoral Researcher, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Meet The Team

Leadership

Researchers

Ankur Garg

Project Coordinator,

Addictions Research Group

Sangath, India

Madhavi Roy

Project Coordinator,

Addictions Research Group

Sangath, India

Ethel D'Souza

Data Manager,

Addictions Research Group

Sangath, India

Allison Tu

Research Associate​

Sangath, India

Devika Gupta

Project Coordinator,

Addictions Research Group

Sangath, India

Soumya Singh

Project Coordinator,

Addictions Research Group

Sangath, India

Youth advisors

Abhijit Nadkarni

Lead Investigator

Co-Director, Addictions Research Group, Sangath, India | Associate Professor of Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

URVITA BHATIA

Investigator

​Research Fellow, Addictions Research Group, Sangath, India | Doctoral Researcher, Oxford Brookes University, UK