Meet the people

The SCIMITAR-SA programme is a significant collaboration of organisations who come together from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and the UK. Individuals and teams from these partners institutions all make a valuable contribution to the aims of the programme. You can find a list of our partners below showing the people involved in our activities.

Community Health Initiatives and Priorities (CHIP) foundation

Ravi Mehrotra

Founder; Capacity Building Co-Lead for SCIMITAR-SA

Dr Shekhar Grover

Focal person - Community Engagement and Involvement

Anshika Chandra

Capacity Building Program Coordinator

ARK Foundation (ARK), Bangladesh

Professor Rumana Huque

Executive Director, ARK Foundation, and University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dr Helal Ahmed

Professor, National Institute of Mental Health, Bangladesh

Professor Sohel Reza Choudhury

Professor, National Heart Foundation Hospital & Research Institute, Dhaka

Pakistan Institute of Living & Leaning (PILL)

Ameer Khoso

Co-investigator for SCIMITAR-SA

Imran Chaudry

Co-founder of PILL; Karachi site lead for SCIMITAR-SA

​Muqaddas Asif

Project Director Pakistan

University of York (UoY), UK

Faraz Siddiqui

Assistant Professor Global Health and Epidemiology

Katie Pybus

Lecturer in Mental Health

Noreen Mdege

Senior Research Fellow (Associate Professor)

Omara Dogar

Senior Lecturer Global Public Health

Steve Parrott

Reader in Health Economics

Professor Kamran Siddiqi

Professor in Public Health

Gerardo A Zavala

Lecturer

Professor Najma Siddiqi

Professor of Psychiatry

Nicky Traynor

Programme Manager

Professor Simon Gilbody

Professor of Psychological Medicine & Psychiatric Epidemiology

Professor Catherine Hewitt

Co-Director of York Trials Unit and Professor of Medical Statistics

Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), Rawalpindi Medical University, Pakistan

Amna Babar

Programme Manager

Professor Asad Nizami

Lead, Centre for IMPACT Mental Health research theme; Director of IoP, Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Rawalpindi Medical University

Dr Asif Maqsod Butt

Lead Community Engagement SCIMITAR- SA, Public Health Specialist, Chairperson of the Rawalian Community Awareness Society and faculty member of RMU

National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), India

Professor Pratima Murthy

Joint Lead, SCIMITAR-SA; Senior Professor of Psychiatry and Director of NIMHANS

Dr. Krishna Prasad M

Additional Professor of Psychiatry

Dr. Prabhat Kumar Chand

Professor of Psychiatry