Nayreen Daruwalla

Dr. Nayreen Daruwalla heads SNEHA’s Prevention of Violence against Women and Children programme. She holds a doctoral degree in Social Psychology and has over two decades of experience in working towards the prevention of gender-based violence, particularly through mental health counselling and crisis intervention for survivors of violence, community mobilisation, and public engagement through art and research. Her expertise is in building models to prevent gender violence in low-income contexts and has developed SNEHA’s convergence model, which includes capacity building and training to support institutional responses (of health, law enforcement and the legal system) to gender-based violence, as well as advocacy. Nayreen’s research, programme designs and scholarship have contributed to the gender-based violence discourse in South Asia. She has also collaborated with agencies such as UNDP, UNFPA, USAID and The Wellcome Trust to deliver and evaluate programs of scale in the region. Nayreen is embarking on a new five-year research project: 'Community interventions for primary and secondary prevention of violence against women and girls: a cluster randomised controlled trial in urban India'.