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Dr Sumeet Jain is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, affiliated with the School of Social and Political Science (Social Work). His interdisciplinary research focuses on community mental health in low-income contexts, cultural psychiatry, ethnography, and global mental health policy, with regional expertise in South Asia. He has led projects funded by ESRC, Carnegie Trust, British Academy, Wellcome Trust, DFID, and World Bank, including studies on recovery-oriented mental health in India, poverty-mental health linkages, and evaluation of Scotland's alcohol/drug referral services.
Research Interests:
- Community mental health systems in low-resource settings
- Critical analysis of psychiatric categories and local distress
- Qualitative/ethnographic evaluation of health programs
- Training of social workers in non-western mental health
- Global mental health policy and equity
Publication Trends: Recent works emphasize participatory interventions, mutuality in mental health, caste identities, and critiques of scaling-up global mental health initiatives. His research spans South Asia, Malawi, Ghana, and the UK, blending sociocultural perspectives with public health outcomes.
Scientific Awards:
- ESRC-Impact Accelerator Award
- Carnegie Trust funding for community mental health in India
- British Academy collaboration on caste and distress
- Wellcome Trust grant for London health inequalities study
- DFID/World Bank funding for poverty-stigma-mental illness research
Dr Jain supervises postgraduate research in Global Mental Health and Social Work, contributes to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, and co-edited The Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health (2017).
