Ankita Mukherjee
About Dr Ankita Mukherjee
Senior Research Fellow
- Ph.D. (Social Medicine and Community Health),
- M. Phil.
Dr. Ankita Mukherjee is a Senior Research Fellow at the George Institute. Ankita holds the DBT/Wellcome India Alliance Early Career Fellowship in Clinical and Public Health. Her fellowship project DAYARA aims to co-create a mental health promotion intervention for Scheduled Tribe communities in Eluru district of Andhra Pradesh.
Ankita also provides qualitative research support (process evaluation, formative evaluation) to several projects in the mental health programme, including SMART Mental Health and ARTEMIS, INDIGO and ANUMATI 2.0. In her work, she regularly interacts with communities, service providers and other stakeholders to understand their perspectives on projects and their implementation.
Her other interest is applying Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) to improve access to quality mental health care.
Ankita holds an M.Phil and PhD degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
