Professor Daksha Trivedi

Chief Investigator

Professor Daksha Trivedi is a Professor of Applied Health Research in the School of Health and Social Work at the University of Hertfordshire. She is the Chief Investigator on the NIHR funded IM-Adapted Study evaluating a faith based culturally adapted intervention to promote mental health in young Muslim women.

Daksha has extensive experience of leading and conducting nationally funded research including young people’s mental health and is a co-investigator in a large European Study of preventing internet addiction in young people (Boosting Societal Adaptation and Mental Health in a Rapidly Digitalising, Post-Pandemic Europe (BOOTSTRAP)).

She is the University’s lead for Mental Health Theme of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration, East of England,  and is co-leading research on Mental Health and Neurodiversity in young people and families. Her work involves health, care and experience in underserved populations including Muslim communities.