School Health Promotion: Case Studies from India

School Health Promotion: Case Studies from India offers evidence-based insights and recommendations to those engaged in addressing the social determinants of health at the school level. The book provides an overview of school health promotion and adolescent health in India, and presents case studies of four programmes: SHAPE, UDAAN, Drishti and Prayatna. Together, these programmes cover seven states of India, and are characterised by different types of human resource delivery, levels of engagement with the school and students, and systems for monitoring and supervision. The case studies provide valuable lessons for strengthening existing programmes and developing new approaches.The target audience includes education and health policy-makers, administrators, researchers and practitioners in government, academic institutions, funding agencies, non-governmental organisations and civil society.

Divya Rajaraman has been working in health research, programme development, and implementation since 2001. She has worked for academic institutions and UNICEF (in partnership with governments and NGOs), on a range of projects in India and sub-Saharan Africa. Her work has included evaluating health and hygiene promotion interventions, assessing health service delivery and access to services, and programming for HIV treatment and care. Divya has a master's degree in Development Studies and a doctoral degree in Social Policy from Oxford University. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University.

Sachin Shinde holds a Master of Public Administration in Health Economics and Policy Analysis from the New York University in New York City, USA, and Master of Arts in Organizational Psychology from the University of Pune, India. He works as the Research Director for SEHER Project which is aimed at developing evidence base on school-based health promotion programmes among adolescents in Bihar, India. Sachin is trained in both quantitative and qualitative research methods and has about 12 years of research experience in planning, execution, monitoring and management of various projects related to health and development. His primary research interests include social determinants of health, and developing and evaluating complex interventions aimed at preventing and promoting health among adolescents. He has extensive experience working with state and national governments, national and international NGOs, grassroots organizations, and a wide range of stakeholders on programme development, implementation and evaluation.

Dr Vikram Patel is a Professor of International Mental Health and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK). He is the Joint Director of the School's Centre for Global Mental Health (www.centreforglobalmentalhealth.org). He is also the Co-Director of the Centre for Chronic Conditions and Injuries at the Public Health Foundation of India. He is a co-founder of Sangath and member of its Managing Committee. He serves on the Ministry of Health (Government of India) Mental Health Policy Group and National Rural Health Mission ASHA Mentoring Group. He also serves on the WHO's Expert Advisory Group for Mental Health and the Technical Steering Committee of the Department of Child and Adolescent Health. He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the UK and won the Chalmers Medal from the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2009. His book Where There Is No Psychiatrist (Gaskell, 2003) has become a widely used manual for community mental health in developing countries. He is a Commissioner for the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health.