IMHA Information

Bringing people together to curate knowledge, facilitate learning and catalyse collective impact for mental health. The India Mental Health Alliance (IMHA) was founded in the latter part of 2023 to build capacity and alliances for mental health in India. Taking a cross sectoral approach and centering lived experience expertise; IMHA has developed and delivered several key capacity building programmes and alliance initiatives in the course of a year, reaching over 200 member organisations from across India, and 2000+ mental health professionals. The First Annual Convening of IMHA will take place in New Delhi in September 2025. A section 8 not for profit organisation, IMHA was set up by Founding Trustees Vasvi and Ashish Bharat Ram together with mental health organisations Amaha and Children First. In 2024, IMHA joined by Manisha Dhawan as Strategic Donor and Board Member.