Dr. Soumitra Pathare
Course Director
Soumitra Pathare is a psychiatrist by training and Director of Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy, ILS, has designed and conducted implementation research trials (SPIRIT), scaling up community mental health programmes in India (Atmiyata), and designing and implementing mental health policies in India and countries in the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia. Atmiyata has been recognised by WHO as one of the 25 innovative rights-based community mental health programmes in the world and is now being piloted for implementation in London UK, an outstanding example of reverse innovation — a frugal evidence-based service delivery model designed and scaled up in the Global South being implemented in the Global North.