TANUH

India faces an urgent mental health crisis with a severe shortage of professionals—approximately one psychiatrist and 0.07 psychologists per 100,000 people. AI solutions, particularly large language models (LLMs), conversational AI, and multimodal analytics, can transform diagnostics, monitoring, and early intervention.

Our goal is to develop safe, explainable, and culturally aligned AI tools that empower frontline health workers, clinicians, and communities to detect and manage common mental disorders (CMDs) at scale.

Our Goal

AI Solutions for Mental Health aims to develop an AI-enabled mobile tool to help community health workers (ASHAs and ANMs) screen for depression, anxiety, substance use, and cognitive impairment. Using simple questionnaires along with voice and video inputs, the app provides automated risk assessments and referral recommendations.

The study will be tested across rural and urban sites in India to evaluate clinical accuracy and real-world usability, using psychiatrist-confirmed diagnoses as the benchmark.

Designed to be offline-first and multilingual, the tool enables early identification and timely care, helping close the mental health treatment gap in India.

The study will be tested across rural and urban sites in India to evaluate clinical accuracy and real-world usability, using psychiatrist-confirmed diagnoses as the benchmark.

Designed to be offline-first and multilingual, the tool enables early identification and timely care, helping close the mental health treatment gap in India.

The study will be tested across rural and urban sites in India to evaluate clinical accuracy and real-world usability, using psychiatrist-confirmed diagnoses as the benchmark.

Designed to be offline-first and multilingual, the tool enables early identification and timely care, helping close the mental health treatment gap in India.

https://mh-dashboards.tanuh.ai/

The Medha Platform: Transforming Community Mental Health through Multimodal AI

The Medha platform is an innovative digital ecosystem designed to bridge the severe mental health treatment gap by empowering frontline healthcare workers with advanced screening capabilities. As the first step towards AI based mental health screening solution, MeDHA platform enables data collection in the Indian context, for 5-7 Indian languages. It is built as a multilingual, and offline-first Android application alongside a secure teleconsultation portal. By analyzing participant meta-data, questionnaire responses and spontaneous speech, the platform is designed to enable the early detection, risk-stratification, and triaging of depression, anxiety, substance use disorders, and cognitive impairment in both rural and urban communities. Backed by strict data governance—featuring de-identified, anonymized and encrypted data storage and the human-in-the-loop clinical oversight, MeDHA is envisioned to streamline referral pathways to specialists and strengthens public health systems by making scalable, high-accuracy mental health screening accessible right at the community level.

Impact & Vision

Current Impact

• Enables early detection of depression and anxiety through door-to-door AI screening.

• Multilingual, culturally adaptive tools for rural and urban India.

• Privacy-by-design and clinician-in-the-loop validation frameworks.

• Potential to bridge India’s 80% mental health treatment gap.