Poushali Ganguli is a research associate in health economics, with a focus on economic evaluation of services for children and adolescents.

Research interests

• Mental health economics
• Economic evaluation of child and adolescent mental health programmes
• Global mental health
• School mental health

Teaching

• Economic evaluation alongside trials
• Critical appraisal of economic evaluations
• Statistical analysis in health economics (computer-based practicals)
• Systematic reviews
• Global mental health (design and evaluation of mental health programmes; theory to practice)

Expertise and public engagement

Poushali is involved in international interdisciplinary work as a:

• Royster Global Fellow – Working with partners at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to increase awareness and understanding of interdisciplinary graduate education in order to prepare doctoral students for opportunities in an increasingly global academic community.
• Plus Alliance International Interdisciplinary Researcher (PIIR) – Working with partners at King’s, UNSW Sydney and Arizona State University to create and share knowledge that can help solve pressing educational and societal global challenges.

Poushali also supports various public engagement and widening participation activities, such as the IOPPN Youth Awards (Young Economist) scheme, an internship prize to encourage young people to pursue a career in STEM. She has been responsible for managing applications, coordinating visits, planning supervision and work tasks, and supporting winners through a mentoring scheme.