Amrita Tripathi is the founder-editor of The Health Collective and a partner at The Collectif . She has 18 years of work experience in the media and as a writer. Her novels, Broken News (2010) and The Sibius Knot (2015) deal with the darker side of urban realities. She has co-authored the Mindscape series of books with leading psychologists — Real Stories of Dealing with Depression (2019) with Arpita Anand, Young Mental Health (2020) with Meera Haran Alva, and The Age of Anxiety (2021) with Kamna Chhibber. Tripathi co-authored Life Interrupted: Understanding India’s Suicide Crisis (2022) with Dr Soumitra Pathare & Dr Abhijit Nadkarni. She tweets @amritat and @healthcollectif. Read More by Amrita here
Abhishek Kumar is a partner at The Collectif (2020); He has more than 20 years of experience in the media, working in venture capital and as an entrepreneur. He tweets @akumar2408 |
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ADVISORSFRIENDS OF THE HEALTH COLLECTIVE
Tanmoy Goswami is a user-survivor; fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford; and the creator of Sanity, India’s first independent, reader-funded mental health storytelling platform. Tanmoy is an advisor to the Keshav Desiraju Indian Mental Health Observatory, and a jury member for the SIREN awards, India’s first journalism prize for reporting on suicide. His work has been cited across the international media. He credits The Health Collective, where he wrote one of his first journalistic pieces on the topic of mental health, with giving him the conviction that this work is urgent and valuable.
Kamna Chhibber Heads Mental Health for the Department of Mental Health and Behavioural Sciences at Fortis Healthcare. She is a trained therapist working with children, adolescents and adults. She is passionate about working in the space of child-adolescent mental health, relationships, trauma and abuse. She designs and creates programs for implementation in schools, corporate organizations and NGO’s that are directed towards enhancing mental health and well-being. She is a writer and author of books and is regularly featured in publications on issues pertaining to mental health and is a TedX speaker. She has played a significant role in enhancing the awareness and understanding pertaining to mental health within the country and is a well-known expert on issues relating to mental health. Kamna Chhibber is the co-author of The Age of Anxiety (2021) with Amrita Tripathi. Read More by Kamna here
Sunalini Mathew is a former journalist who has worked across publications such as The Hindu, Reader’s Digest, Women’s Health, Prevention, and Child, with by lines in Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping. She has experience in editing, writing, PR, events, and social media, and is currently working in the development sector leading a team of communications professionals. Having worked extensively with international publications, she is conversant with delivering content based on brand guidelines and style sheets. At The Hindu, she introduced a series of mental health stories from a user-survivor perspective to benefit those going through similar experiences and to raise awareness about mental health conditions. |
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Solo is a Calcutta/Bangalore-based writer and cartoonist. Bored with a very successful career in advertising, she recently quit all the money and sexism to pursue her dreams – which include sleeping, playing with her four cats and raging on the internet. See more here |
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Adwaita Das is the author of Quantum Tango, Colours of Shadow, 27 Stitches andSongs of Sanity. Their art features in various publications and illustrated series, includingYoung Mental Health with The Health Collective and Divine Darkness by Black Bough Poetry. They have worked in theatre, news, advertising and filmmaking. As creative facilitator, inclusive and innovative, Adwaita applies spoken imagery to address trauma and share tools of peace. More by Adwaita here
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