Asha Soletti

About

Dr. Asha Banu Soletti is currently Professor at the Centre for Health and Mental Health, School of Social Work (SSW), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. She served as the Dean, Student's Affairs, from 2018-2024. She was the Chairperson of the Centre for Health and Mental Health (CHMH), SSW, from 2012 to 2018. She teaches Master's level courses in Public Health and Mental Health. Her research projects and field engagements focuses on understanding, evolving and strengthening social interventions for health, with special focus on marginalised communities. Her field engagement includes co-constructing community-led interventions for emerging public health concerns in both urban and rural contexts. Presently, she leads Pragati: Integrated Rural Health and Development Project, a Field Action Project, which is located in a tribal belt and caters to the health needs of the Konkana, Warli and Katkari tribes. She has actively responded and contributed to the disaster relief work operations of the Institute.
During Dr. Soletti's leadership with the CHMH, she spearheaded the forging of academic partnership between TISS and The Banyan, Chennai. She also facilitated the formalising of the agreement between TISS and INHS-Asvini to offer the M.Phil. programme in Psychiatric Social Work.
She was awarded the Linnaeus-Palme Fellowship to visit and teach at the Gothenburg University, Sweden, in 2012. She also serves in Institutional Review Board (IRB) of many organisations. She is actively involved in training and capacity building, monitoring and evaluation in the Public Health domain, and has several peer-reviewed publications to her credit.

Employment

• Tata Institute of Social Sciences Professor, Centre for Health and Mental Health, School of Social Work and Former Dean, Students Affairs
  2018 - Present
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences Professor and Chair
  2012 - 2018

Education

Education history is unavailable.

Projects & Funding

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Publications (19)

• Visibly Invisible: Unpacking Contemporary Concerns and Challenges of Population Aging in India
  2024 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-4449-7_1
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• Pragati: Sculpting a Social Model of Health in a Resource-Poor Context
  The International Journal of Community and Social Development 2023 DOI: 10.1177/25166026231187497
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• How do Muslim service users, caregivers, and community members in Malappuram, Kerala, use their faith to address the challenges associated with mental ill health?
  Mental Health, Religion & Culture 2023 DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2023.2169268
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• Examining Intergenerational Ties and Roles: From the Lens of Tribal Older Persons in India
  Social Aspects of Aging in Indigenous Communities 2023 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197677216.003.0019
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• Specification of Policy for the Barriers to Care and Treatment of Nepali Migrants Living with HIV/AIDS in India
  2022 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1358799/v1
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• Lived Experiences of Adult Burn Survivors with Post-Burn Contractures
  Social Work in Public Health 2022 DOI: 10.1080/19371918.2021.1997862
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• Specification of Policy for the Barriers to Care and Treatment of Nepali Migrants Living with HIV/AIDS in India
  ResearchSquare 2022 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1358799
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• Nurses at the frontline of public health emergency preparedness and response: lessons learned from the HIV/AIDS pandemic and emerging infectious disease outbreaks
  The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2021 DOI: 10.1016/s1473-3099(20)30983-x
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• Revered or abused: Exploring reasons for abuse within family from the narratives of three elderly women in Chennai
  Ageing Issues and Responses in India 2020 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-5187-1_14
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• Greying population and growing disparities challenges and opportunities for gerontological social work in india
  Indian Journal of Social Work 2020 DOI: 10.32444/IJSW.2020.81.1.5-16
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