Aneeta is a development professional with programmatic and research experience working in the field of mental health within the public health sector in Pakistan.
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. She spearheaded the capacity building for a task-sharing approach that uses community health workers to deliver mental health interventions and the wide scale service delivery in low-income communities and health facilities. In addition, Aneeta was also Co-founder of the Community Engagement Center (functional from 2017-2021) and was selected to be a member of the WHO – Civil Society Task Force on TB.
Aneeta 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.
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