28/11/2025
ETI Services is honoured to share that Dr. Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Founder of SNEHA and a Member of the WHO International Network for Su***de Research and Prevention (IASP), will be joining us at Fresh Perspectives on Su***de Prevention & Mental Health, an international conference hosted by Connecting Trust.
She will be speaking as an esteemed panelist at the Policymakers’ Panel Discussion, “From Policy to People: Bridging Gaps in Mental Health Reform”, hosted by ETI Services on November 28, 2025. This session will bring together leaders, advocates, and practitioners committed to strengthening India’s mental health ecosystem and advancing evidence-based reforms.
A leading psychiatrist and su***de prevention expert, Dr. Vijayakumar is the Founder of SNEHA, India’s pioneering crisis-support organisation. She heads Psychiatry at Voluntary Health Services, Chennai, and serves as an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne. Her decades of experience in community-based intervention, crisis response, and su***de prevention research will bring a compassionate, practice-oriented perspective to conversations on building accessible, culturally responsive mental health systems.