Poushali Ganguli is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Health Service and Population Research at King's College London, where she was based for eleven years. She is now a  Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford's Centre for Emerging Minds Research.

Her research specialises in the economic evaluation of mental health interventions, with a particular focus on programmes for children and young people delivered in school and community settings. Her broader research interests span epidemiology, health economics, digital health and global mental health.

Poushali completed her PhD at King's, exploring the methods of economic evaluation for school-based mental health interventions. She holds a degree in Physiology from King's College London and a Master's in Global Mental Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and King's College London. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research interests 

• Mental health economics
• Child and adolescent mental health
• School mental health
• Digital health interventions
• Global health
• Interdisciplinary research methods

Teaching

• Economic evaluation alongside clinical trials
• Systematic reviews and evidence synthesis
• International health and sustainable development
• Influence of society and politics on health
• Health policy, economics and management

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.