Dr Prabha Chandra is senior professor of psychiatry and dean of faculty of behavioural sciences, at the The National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore. She is the president elect of the International Association for Women’s Mental Health, a past executive member of the Marce International Society and co-author of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) curriculum on intimate partner and sexual violence, as well as the WPA Position statements on perinatal psychiatry and violence against women. She is also a co-author of the recent Lancet Commission for mental health and violence against women.  

An active researcher with 17 funded grants as principal investigator, she has also edited several books on women’s mental health and palliative care. Dr Chandra was heralded as a champion for women’s mental health by Lancet Psychiatry. She started the first dedicated perinatal psychiatry service and Mother Baby Unit in Asia and also organised the first ever Marce International conference in a low and middle income country ( LAMIC), in Bangalore, India. She is also a consultant to the World Health Organisation and The United States Agency for International Development for implementation of perinatal mental health programmes in LAMIC.