Dr. Ravindra Agrawal
Principal Investigator
Addictions and related-Research Group
Ravindra is a consultant psychiatrist based in Goa and has been actively engaged in supporting Sangath’s work, in the past as its Managing Committee member and now on the Executive Council. He is the PI on a large CSR-funded implementation project in rural Madhya Pradesh under the EMPOWER India initiative.
He is leading Sangath’s fundraising efforts and has been engaged in the Impact-T project (telepsychiatry). He has a Diploma in Psychological Medicine (India), Master in Psychiatric Medicine ( NSW, Australia), and is a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, United Kingdom. He also has an MBA in Health Care. He has extensive experience working in rural India (District Mental Health Program), National Health Service, UK, and Western Sydney Area Health Service, New South Wales. He is the Director of Antarman Centre, a multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychotherapists, and runs the psychiatry department at Manipal Hospital, Goa. Dr Agrawal is a member of the Goa State Mental Health Authority and Vice President of the Psychiatric Society of Goa. His areas of interest are youth (resilience), addictions, and community mental health.
