Tag: mental Health

25th November 2014 New Delhi, India

Rita Sharma

by Rita Sharma

Head of Newton Fund in India

UK India Science and Innovation Council 2014 delivered and Newton Bhabha Fund formally launched!

The UK’s Minister for Universities, Science and Cities, Greg Clark was in Delhi earlier in November for two and a half days to take stock of UK India collaborations in all three areas in his portfolio – Education, Science and Cities! He landed in Delhi with a delegation of 30 distinguished dignitaries from the arena […]

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14th October 2014 Colombo, Sri Lanka

Laura Davies » Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives

by Laura Davies

Former Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives

Talking openly about mental health

Last Friday was World Mental Health Day.  The World Health Organisation estimates that 450 million people worldwide have a mental health problem.  In the UK, 90% of prisoners have some kind of mental health issue, as do 10% of children.  Sri Lanka has the fourth highest per capita suicide rate in the world.  Globally, one […]

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8th May 2014 Bangalore, India

Sunil Kumar M

by Sunil Kumar

Senior Science & Innovation Adviser

Following lives CLOSER

I have been intrigued by Cohort studies ever since I learnt about it when I was working on colonies of ants during my M.Sc. In the last few months, I have learnt quite a lot about cohort studies in humans. Especially during the last two workshops that we had organised with partner organisations – one […]

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31st December 2013 New Delhi, India

Review of 2013

2013 has been quite a year for the UK Science and Innovation Network and our partners in India. In January, we took part in the visit of UK Health Minister, Anna Soubry. Health was a major theme of our work this year, which covered medical devices, regulations, an MoU signing, and preparations for workshops on […]

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23rd May 2013 Bangalore, India

Sunil Kumar M

by Sunil Kumar

Senior Science & Innovation Adviser

On my mind!

According to Time to Change, a UK campaign to challenge stigma around mental health, one in four of us will be affected by a mental health problem in a given year. In this context, you perhaps shouldn’t be surprised to hear that I’ve been to two mental heath institutions in the past couple of weeks. However, […]

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