For over 15 years, Srishti has been invested in bringing high-quality mental health care to the most at-risk, underserved people globally. She has been an entrepreneur, clinical psychologist, corrections officer, and the lead of several evidence-based projects in collaboration with governments, academic institutions, and nonprofits. Her clinical science training in humanitarian emergencies has a twofold impact – she is equipped to design studies and trials, be a methodologist and data analyst, as well as provide direct patient care, bringing evidence-based psychotherapies that are culturally validated to the local context.
As a research fellow at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins University, Srishti is involved in global and domestic projects implementing evidence-based mental health interventions and developing systems of care for communities afflicted with negative health consequences of violence and HIV/AIDS, chronic disease (Hypertension, Diabetes), war/conflict and displacements, in South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine, Sub-Saharan Africa, and other regions.
In her former role as a doctoral candidate and lab coordinator in the Global Mental Health Lab, at Columbia University, she coordinated studies and projects assessing the efficacy and effectiveness of evidence-based mental health interventions in a variety of low mental health resource regions globally – amidst the ongoing civil war in Lebanon on the Grand Challenges Canada funded efficacy study with Syrian refugees and Lebanese host; following the earthquake in Nepal with adolescents with depression and PTSD; UNHCR funded three site studies — in Peru with Venezuelan refugees, Bangladesh with Rohingya refugees following the Myanmar genocide, and with the Congolese in Tanzania, and domestically on a climate change & mental health project in the US. She has collaborated with Lena Verdeli (developer of Interpersonal Psychotherapy and disseminated globally by the WHO) and Laura Murray (developer of the Common Elements Treatment Approach) at Columbia and Johns Hopkins University, where she has also received training.
As a former psychologist and corrections officer in India, Srishti implemented projects and studies with populations on the margins — home-based female sex workers, trafficking survivors, violence survivors, juvenile sex offenders, communities in deep poverty, and women and girls living with severe mental illnesses.