Manaswi Sangraula, PhD

Manaswi Sangraula is an Assistant Professor at Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health. Her work focuses on using community-engaged methods to design, adapt, implement and evaluate mental health interventions globally. She has expertise in designing and delivering training and supervision on brief mental health interventions to non-specialist providers, such as community psychosocial workers and staff at community-based organizations, in underserved areas. Her research interests also include the intersection between reproductive health and mental health and she is currently working on projects related to cervical cancer stigma and maternal depression. She is one of the leads of the Human Rights Resiliency Project (HRRP), an interdisciplinary project that uses participatory research methods for co-designing peer-to-peer wellbeing initiatives for human rights defenders. Manaswi is also the Program Evaluation Specialist for New York Presbyterian (NYP) Hospital’s Community and Population Health Division and develops evaluations for NYC community health initiatives, including public space activation, reproductive health, and early childhood development programs.