​Manasi Kumar

Dr Manasi Kumar is the Brain and Mind Institute’s (BMI) Senior Implementation Scientist and ​Mental Health Consultant. She holds a doctorate degree from the University of London (UCL), UK. Trained in theoretical psychoanalysis and implementation science informed evidence based mental health research in LMICs, she has lived and worked in diverse contexts of South Asia and East Africa. For the last 10 years she was involved in training of clinical psychologists and psychiatrists based at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Kenya, and has been involved in mental health capacity building efforts targeting specialists, non-specialist health workers globally.