Dr Prabha Chandra, Dr. Prabha S. Chandra, is a Professor and previous Head of Psychiatry at NIMHANS, Bangalore, India. She has served as a Temporary Advisor to the WHO and UNAIDS and is the President Elect of the International Association of Women’s Mental health. She has been a member as well as chair of several IRBs and is particularly interested in the ethics of research in mental health and violence against women and children. She was the co-organizer of the 2nd NBC at Bangalore in 2007.

During the pandemic she has led two research projects involving sensitive data collection on the above topics.