Madhumitha Balaji

Employment

• Harvard Global Research Support Centre India Consultant
  2023 - Present
• Sangath Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Early Career Fellow
  2017 - Present
• Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy Honorary Research Fellow
  2017 - 2022

Education

• Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London MSC in Mental Health Services Research
  2006 - 2007

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (15)

• Why young people attempt suicide in India: A qualitative study of vulnerability to action
  SSM - Mental Health 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmmh.2023.100216
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• Hunger, fear, and isolation - A qualitative analysis of media reports of COVID-19-related suicides in India.
  Indian journal of psychiatry 2021 DOI: 10.4103/indianjpsychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_100_21
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• COVID-19 mental health impact and responses in low-income and middle-income countries: reimagining global mental health.
  The lancet. Psychiatry 2021 DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(21)00025-0
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• The Young Lives Matter study protocol: A case-control study of the determinants of suicide attempts in young people in India [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
  2020 DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16364.1
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• Feasibility and acceptability of a novel community-based mental health intervention delivered by community volunteers in Maharashtra, India: the Atmiyata programme.
  BMC psychiatry 2020 DOI: 10.1186/s12888-020-2466-z
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• Experiences of stigma and discrimination faced by family caregivers of people with schizophrenia in India.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.01.061
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• The Healthy Activity Program lay counsellor delivered treatment for severe depression in India: systematic development and randomised evaluation.
  The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2015 DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.114.161075
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• Customising informed consent procedures for people with schizophrenia in India.
  Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology 2015 DOI: 10.1007/s00127-015-1037-y
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• Experiences of stigma and discrimination of people with schizophrenia in India.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2014 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.035
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• Using consumer perspectives to inform the cultural adaptation of psychological treatments for depression: a mixed methods study from South Asia.
  Journal of affective disorders 2014 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2014.03.036
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