Swetha Ranganathan (she/her) is a mental health and suicide prevention researcher at the Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy, ILS. She works on project ENGAGE, which focuses on training secondary and higher secondary school teachers as gatekeepers to prevent adolescent suicides. She has worked as a Youth Advisor on the MindKind Study, drawing on her lived experiences of mental health challenges and ensuring that the youth’s voice remained central to the project. Swetha has assisted co-production and research activities on several youth mental health and suicide prevention-related projects and has also helped in the development and execution of capacity-building initiatives (development and facilitation of online courses) at the Centre. She holds a master’s degree in Psychology of Mental Health from the University of Edinburgh. Swetha previously worked with Sangath where she authored an advocacy toolkit for youth mental health amongst other work.