Padmaja Kumari Parmar, Founder of Friends of Mewar, and Kush Parmar, Managing Partner of 5AM Ventures, hosted a cocktail reception at their home featuring remarks from Vikram Patel, the Pershing Square Professor of Global Health at Harvard Medical School.

Vikram is an internationally recognized leader in global mental health and co-director of HMS’s Mental Health for All Lab and he described the innovations needed to reimagine mental health care and the deployment of digital tools to rapidly scale up the innovations to tackle the mental health crisis head-on, both in the US and globally.

Padmaja and Kush have been supporting Harvard Medical School’s Global Mental Health initiative to address disparities and curate an online curriculum to train mental health workers in the development and delivery of psychological therapies.

In addition, Friends of Mewar, has been the primary financial support for the initiative since 2019 through the start of The Friends of Mewar Fund in Global Mental Health. The fund supports a myriad of program activities.

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