Sheila Ramaswamy has a background in Medical and Psychiatric Social Work and Public Health and is Technical and Operational Lead at SAMVAD (Support, advocacy & mental health interventions for children in vulnerable circumstances and distress) in India. Her technical areas of work over the years, include maternal and child health, nutrition and food security, water and sanitation, and child and adolescent mental and psychosocial healthcare. In recent years, through her work at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, she has been engaged in child protection and mental health work, ranging from designing and initiating community child mental health interventions to policy and advocacy initiatives pertaining to child sexual abuse and juvenile justice laws. She is experienced in providing interventions on issues such as adoption, childhood trauma, and children in conflict with law and is currently doing a PhD on these themes at Vrije University of Amsterdam. https://nimhanschildprotect.in/meet-the-team/

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