Rakesh Singh

Rakesh Singh, a public health professional, has substantial experience in academia and research. He holds a Bachelor of Public Health degree and a Master of Public Health Degree. He has been honored with the Academic Excellence Award by the President of Nepal in 2014. His professional career spans nine years of work as a faculty at medical universities in Nepal.

He excels in mental health research with a especial interest in adolescent and global mental health. He has over four dozen publications in national/international peer-reviewed indexed journals. Rakesh started pursuing his PhD on June 1, 2023, at the Center for Global Mental Health (CGMH) within the Health Services and Population Research Department (HSPRD) in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences (IoPPN) at King’s College London, being supervised by Professor Crick Lund and Professor Mark Jordans. His PhD is embedded within a larger research project - improving adolescent mental health by reducing the impact of poverty (ALIVE). He works as a Senior Research Coordinator within the ALIVE project at TPO Nepal in Nepal.

His PhD intends to evaluate the role of resilience as a mediator between self-regulation and economic interventions (combined and separate) and the prevention of depression and anxiety among adolescents living in urban poverty in Nepal. Four sub-studies are being conducted as a part of his PhD studies - I) A systematic review of previous studies on resilience and common mental disorders (including depression and anxiety) among adolescents living in LMICs; II) A mixed-method study to evaluate a contextually validated self-report tool to assess resilience among adolescents in Nepal; III) A cross-sectional survey to explore the association of resilience measures with self-regulation, poverty, and depressive and anxiety symptoms among adolescents in Nepal; and IV) Utilize the ALIVE project’s platform to evaluate how resilience mediates the effect of self-regulation and economic interventions (combined and separate) on the incidence of depression and anxiety symptoms among adolescents. This evaluation will be done in light of the information collected through the ALIVE four-arm pilot cluster randomized controlled trial (cRCT).

Contact Details: Email: rakesh [dot] singh [at] kcl [dot] ac [dot] uk