Professor Swaran Singh

Professor Swaran Singh is the Principal Investigator of the ISOBAR study and leads the team at the University of Warwick.

Swaran is a Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry and is the Director of the Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing Research at the University of Warwick and a practicing clinical psychiatrist. He was trained both in India and UK, and has wide-ranging expertise in global mental health.

Swaran has led several large-scale international projects in both high- and low- and middle-income countries within time and budget.

Professor Jason Madan

Professor Jason Madan is a Professor in Health Economics at Warwick Medical School, and Director of Graduate Research Studies for the School.

Jason has an extensive track record in leading health economic evaluations in mental health and in LMIC settings, and is the health economics lead for the NIHR Global Unit for Slum Health and the NIHR Global Group Health Group on Improving on Psychosis Outcomes (NIHR WIC).

Dr Helena Tuomainen

Dr Helena Tuomainen is an Assitant Professor at Warwick MedicalSchool.

Helena is involved in school-based mental health research and the development and use of an assessment platform, currently enabling schools to undertake yearly wellbeing measurements, but with scope for broader research use. Helena is interested in young people and their mental wellbeing in high and low/middle income countries and in schools as settings for promoting mental wellbeing, identifying problems and supporting young people.

Professor Domenico Giacco

Professor Domenico Giaccos research focuses on harnessing the power of positive social relationships and reducing social isolation of people with mental health conditions in order to improve their mental health and quality of life.

Domenico was also involved in collaborative work with the World Health Organisation and I contributed to the development of a health evidence network review, and a technical guidance on mental health care for refugees and migrants.

Professor Graeme Currie

Professor Graeme Currie is an Professor in Public Management based at Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick.

Graemes interests include leadership, knowledge mobilisation, innovation, strategic change, management learning, with a focus public services organisation and management (health and social care, education, police, local government)

Professor Paramjit Gill

Professor Paramjit Gill is a Professor of General Practice based at Warwick Medical School.

Paramjits research interests include addressing health inequalities particularly amongst migrant populations and evidence-based health care and its application to health care delivery. His current focus is on communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Paramjit is engaged in the full range of research methodologies from both the quantitative and qualitative paradigms. He is involved in a number of national and international studies.

Dr Sagar Jilka

Dr Sagar Jilka is a Senior Research Fellow in the Mental Health & Wellbeing Unit in the Division of Health Sciences.

Sagar was previously the patient and public involvement coordinator at the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (King’s College London), and prior to that worked as a football data scientist at a tech start up in London.

Sagar is the research lead and responsible for the quantitative aspects of data collection.

Dr Catherine Winsper

Dr Cathy Winsper is an Assistant Professor in Warwick Applied Health at Warwick Medical School.

Cathy is interested in developmental psychopathology, specifically, how mental disorders develop over childhood and adolescence.

Sanjana Goutham

Sanjana Goutham has joined the ISOBAR team at the University of Warwick, moving from Chennai to the UK in April 2024.

Sanjana's passion lies in the intersection of psychiatry and public mental health, where she combines storytelling and research to make a meaningful impact.

Previously, Sanjana has worked with the Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF) in India, engaging in collaborations with esteemed organizations like the World Health Organization South-East Asia, CitiesRISE, and the Wellcome Trust.

Simon Smith

Simon Smith is the Project Manager and will work closely with all partners and monitor project progress.

Simon has worked in Global Health since 2017 and has worked in Bangladesh, Brazil, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria and Pakistan. He also manages the NIHR funded TRANSFORM project and previously managed the Global Health Research Unit on Improving Health in Slums.

Desiree Stewart

Desiree Stewart has worked with Swaran for a number of years and has experience of organising large events, supporting projects and has worked internationally with a wide variery of collaborators.

Desiree joins the ISOBAR team as a Project Officer and also supports TRANSFORM.