Shalini is an implementation science researcher and a physiotherapist by training.
She is the current Research Programme Manager for the ARC Mental Health Implementation Network, which aims to implement and evaluate evidence-based mental health interventions across England. She has a master’s degree in health management, planning, and policy from the University of Leeds and a PhD in public mental health research from King’s College London.
With around ten years of work in health services research, she has experience in evaluating mental health information systems in South Asian and Sub-Saharan African countries, as well as co-developing behaviour change interventions in a variety of health domains, such as “integrated physical and mental health,” infection prevention and control, antibiotic resistance, and chronic malnutrition.