aneeta.pasha@ird.global

Aneeta Pasha is a Fulbright scholar, with a graduate degree from the Masters of Arts Program in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, with a concentration in anthropology. She is a development professional with over 15 years of programmatic and research experience working in the development sector in Pakistan in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, and mental health. In 2014, Aneeta established IRD’s mental health program that aims to increase access to mental health services at the community level by increasing demand for services through awareness raising and community engagement, capacity building for a task-sharing approach that uses community health workers to deliver mental health interventions and finally, wide scale service delivery in low-income communities and health facilities. In addition, Aneeta also serves as Deputy Country Director, for IRD Pakistan.

Aneeta is currently a PI on the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Developing Psycho-Social Interventions.