Media

Media appearances, interviews, and press coverage sharing insights on mental health, innovation, and social impact

TV & Podcast

▶ VIDEO
Channel i
Channel I forecast of Responsible Media Reporting on Suicide Prevention in Bangladesh
▶ VIDEO
G TV
Gazi TV covered the inauguration of the training program for Community Health Workers on serious mental disorders held on March 13, 2024
▶ VIDEO
G TV
Gazi TV aired coverage of a community mental health initiative focusing on strengthening the capacity of Community Health Workers
▶ VIDEO
G TV
Gazi TV covered a stakeholders and experts meeting of the TRANSFORM Bangladesh

Press & Articles

Commonwealth Scholarship: Transforming Mental Healthcare Through Digital Innovation
Commonwealth Scholarship April 2025
Commonwealth Scholarship: Transforming Mental Healthcare Through Digital Innovation
This study features Dr Tanjir Rashid Soron, a clinical psychiatrist, researcher and entrepreneur who completed a Master’s degree in Global eHealth at the University of Edinburgh in 2019 as a Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholar. The education provided by the University of Edinburgh was essential to Tanjir, and it contributed towards filling the skills gap in eHealth in Bangladesh; to Tanjir’s knowledge, he is the only person in the country holding a Master’s degree in eHealth. Tanjir was determined to use his skills to address the fundamental inequalities in healthcare provision in Bangladesh. He recognised that mental healthcare in particular was inaccessible for the majority of Bangladesh’s rural poor, where geographical and financial constraints acted as barriers to care. Tanjir believed that it was possible to address these challenges through the implementation of digital technologies. This promoted him to seek out opportunities for further study in this field.
Read more →
Kalbela Covers the Success Updates of the TRANSFORM Project- January 10, 2026
KAlbela Newspaper January 2026
Kalbela Covers the Success Updates of the TRANSFORM Project- January 10, 2026
Kalbela reported on the remarkable success of the TRANSFORM project, highlighting a fivefold increase in mental health treatment among slum dwellers in Dhaka. The report featured real-life stories from the Karail slum, demonstrating how increased awareness and proper referral pathways have transformed attitudes toward mental illness.
Read more →
Amader Shomoy Features Successful CHW Training Conclusion
Amader Somoy Newspaper March 2024
Amader Shomoy Features Successful CHW Training Conclusion
‘ট্রান্সফর্মিং এক্সেস টু কেয়ার ফর সিরিয়াস মেন্টাল ডিসঅর্ডারস ইন স্লামস’- দ্যা ট্রান্সফর্ম বাংলাদেশ প্রকল্পের আওতায় টেলিসাইকিয়াট্রি রিসার্চ ইনোভেশন নেটওয়ার্ক লিমিটেডের আয়োজনে রাজধানীর কড়াইল বস্তির কমিউনিটি স্বাস্থ্যকর্মী এবং ওষুধ বিক্রেতাদের নিয়ে তিন দিনব্যাপী প্রশিক্ষণ কার্যক্রম শেষ হয়েছে।
Read more →
Daily Janakantha Newspaper reported on the community engagement meeting with school teachers held on March 6, 2023
Newspaper March 2023
Daily Janakantha Newspaper reported on the community engagement meeting with school teachers held on March 6, 2023
Read more →

Publications

Peer-reviewed research articles, books, and scholarly contributions advancing mental health science and practice

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2025

Digital health systems and inequities: exploring climate and environmental impacts
Natalie Hammond, Peter Benjamin, Gabrielle Samuel ... Carme Carrion
Oxford Open Digital Health
Beyond belief: understanding contexts for help-seeking for severe mental illness in urban slum communities in Dhaka, Bangladesh and Ibadan, Nigeria
Ursula Read, Bulbul Siddiqi, Kafayat Aminu ... Swaranpreet Singh
SSM - Mental Health
Influences on help-seeking for serious mental illness in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a mixed-methods study
Sagar Jilka, Bulbul Siddiqi, Cathy Winsper ... Swaran Preet Singh
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Learning as a missing component of digital health, environment and climate change
Maeghan Orton, Gabrielle Samuel, Mats Blakstad ... Peter Drury
npj Digital Medicine
Mental Health in the Digital Age: The Growing Threat of Screen Exposure in School-Going Children in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Shahria Hafiz Kakon, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Sharif Hossain ... Rashidul Haque
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Study Results of mCARE: Developing, Deploying, and Analysing the End-to-End Results of a Mobile-Based Remote Monitoring Tool for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Bangladesh
Md Moazzamul Haque, Md Ishrak Islam, Masud Rabbani ... Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology
GIS integrated Mental Health Service Delivery Mapping of Korail Slum
Tanjir Rashid Soron, Kazi Shammin Azmery, T. Consortium
European Psychiatry
Navigating the Challenges of Conducting Training Programs for Serious Mental Disorders for different stakeholder in Slum in Bangladesh
Tanjir Rashid Soron, Kazi Shammin Azmery, F. Ahmed ... T. Consortium
European Psychiatry
mCARE: Integrating Mobile Phones, Caregivers, and Health Practitioners to Provide Regular Monitoring and Care for the Children with ASD in Bangladesh
Md Moazzamul Haque, Md Ishrak Islam, Masud Rabbani ... Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
Book Chapter
Community Perceptions of Telepsychiatry in Slums: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Path Toward Equitable Mental Health Access
Tanjir Rashid Soron
Conference Presentation
Co-Designing the Backbone of Developing Complex Interventions and Policy Change – The Need to Hear the Voices of the Unheard in Transforming Mental Health Care in Slums
Tanjir Rashid Soron
Conference Presentation
"The situation is more complicated than we anticipated" - The crisis for biomedical care in the slums
Tanjir Rashid Soron, TRANSFORM CONSORTIUM
Conference Presentation
GIS integrated Mental Health Service Delivery Mapping of Korail slum
Tanjir Rashid Soron, TRANSFORM CONSORTIUM
Conference Presentation
Navigating the Challenges of Conducting Training Programs for Serious Mental Disorders for different stakeholder in Slum in Bangladesh
Tanjir Rashid Soron
Conference Presentation
High Exposure to Screen: A Threat for Health and Mental Wellbeing of School Going Children in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Shahria Hafiz Kakon, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Mohammad Sharif Hossain ... Rashidul Haque
Preprint
High Screen Exposure and Its Association with Physical and Mental Well-Being Among School-Going Children in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Study
Shahria Hafiz Kakon, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Mohammad Sharif Hossain ... Rashidul Haque
JMIR Human Factors
Co-developed Innovative TRANSFORM Training Program for Early Identification and Referral of Serious Mental Disorders in Slum in Bangladesh
Tanjir Rashid Soron
Conference Presentation

2022

Transforming access to care for serious mental disorders in slums (the TRANSFORM Project): rationale, design and protocol
Swaran P. Singh, Sagar Jilka , Jibril Abdulmalik , Georgios Bouliotis , Rakesh Chadda , Olayinka Egbokhare , Rumana Huque , Gillian Lewando Hundt , Srividya Iyer , Obafemi Jegede , Neeru Khera , Richard Lilford , Jason Madan , Akinyinka Omigbodun , Olayinka Omigbodun , Tasneem Raja , Ursula M. Read , Bulbul Ashraf Siddiqi , Mamta Sood , Tanjir Rashid Soron and Helal Uddin Ahmed
BJPsych Open DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.584
A data-driven validation of mobile-based care (mCARE) project for children with ASD in LMICs
Masud Rabbani, Munirul M. Haque, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal, Amy Schwichtenberg, Naveen Bansal, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
Smart Health DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smhl.2022.100345
MPredA: A Machine Learning Based Prediction System to Evaluate the Autism Level Improvement
Masud Rabbani, Munirul M. Haque, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal, Amy Schwichtenberg, Naveen Bansal, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed & Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
LNICST DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99194-4_26
A Mobile Health Application for Monitoring Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: ASD Monitoring by mHealth
Masud Rabbani, Munirul M. Haque, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal, Shaheen Akhter, Shahana Parveen, Mohammad Rasel, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Naveen Bansal, Amy Schwichtenberg, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-2304-2.ch002
Adapting the Use of Digital Content to Improve the Learning of Numeracy Among Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Rwanda: Thematic Content Analysis Study
Theoneste Ntalindwa, Mathias Nduwingoma, Alphonse Uworwabayeho, Pascasie Nyirahabimana, Evariste Karangwa, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Thomas Westin, Thashmee Karunaratne, Henrik Hansson,
JMIR Serious Games DOI: 10.2196/28276

2021

Domestic Violence and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh
Rashid Soron T, Ashiq MAR, Al-Hakeem M, Chowdhury ZF, Uddin Ahmed H, Afrooz Chowdhury C
JMIR Form Res 2021; 5(9):e24624 DOI: 10.2196/24624
Development of a Mobile App to Improve Numeracy Skills of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Participatory Design and Usability Study
Ntalindwa T, Nduwingoma M, Karangwa E, Rashid Soron T, Uworwabayeho A, Uwineza A
JMIR Pediatr Parent 2021; 4(3):e21471 DOI: 10.2196/21471
Informing Developmental Milestone Achievement for Children With Autism: Machine Learning Approach
Haque MM, Rabbani M, Dipal DD, Zarif MII, Iqbal A, Schwichtenberg A, Bansal N, Soron TR, Ahmed SI, Ahamed SI
JMIR Med Inform 2021;9(6):e29242 DOI: 10.2196/29242
Validation of the Bangla WHO-5 Well-being Index
Md. Omar Faruk, Farzana Alam , Kamal Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury and Tanjir Rashid Soron
Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2021.26
An mCARE study on patterns of risk and resilience for children with ASD in Bangladesh
Masud Rabbani, Munirul M. Haque, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal, Amy Schwichtenberg, Naveen Bansal, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed & Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
Sci Rep 11, 21342 (2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00793-7
Grant Report on mCARE: Mobile-Based Care for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) for Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).
Haque MM, Rabbani M, Dipal DD, Zarif MII, Iqbal A, Akhter S, Parveen S, Rasel M, Rabbani G, Alam F, Soron TR, Ahmed SI, Ahamed SI.
J Psychiatr Brain Sci. DOI: 10.20900/jpbs.20210004

2020

Preventing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the general population induced by trauma during the COVID pandemic
Gargot, T, Kisand, H Ana Miguel, Tanyeri, S, Soron, T. R, Serene, B, Feron, G Nikola Zaja, Florido, MJV, Oscar Soto-Angona, Frankova, I
European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation DOI: 10.1016/j.ejtd.2020.100193
Addressing the COVID-19 related stigma and discrimination: a fight against “infodemic” in Bangladesh
Hasan T, D, Hossain S, Soron, TR, Ahmed HU
Minerva Psichiatrica;61(4):184-7(1):184-191 DOI: 10.23736/S0391-1772.20.02088-9
Telepsychiatry as a mental health intervention for garment workers in Bangladesh: A ‘Need of Hour' during COVID-19?
Soron, TR, Hasan, MT, Podder, V, Sayeed, A
Population Medicine October 2020(2) DOI: 10.18332/popmed/125914
The hope and hype of telepsychiatry during the COVID-19 pandemic
TR Soron, SMS Islam, HU Ahmed, SI Ahmed
The Lancet Psychiatry 7 (8) DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30260-1
Suicide on Facebook-the tales of unnoticed departure in Bangladesh
TR Soron, SMS Islam
Global Mental Health 7,e12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2020.5
Leveraging Free-Hand Sketches for Potential Screening of PTSD
Shahid, F., Rahman, W, Rahman, M. S,. Purabi, S, A., Seddiqa, a,. Mostakim, M. Farhan Feroz, F,. Soron TR, Hossain, F,. Khan, N,. Islam, A, B,. Paul, N., Hoque, E,. and Islam. A. B. M.
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies DOI: 10.1145/3411835
Mental Health in COVID-19 - An e-health service to provide Tele-mental health support in pandemic
Akter, N, Chowdhury R, Soron TR.
Asian Hospital & & Healthcare Management. 49, pp-61-64 DOI: .
"We Need More Power to Stand Up'': Designing to Combat Stigmatization of the Caregivers of Children with Autism in Urban Bangladesh
Abdul Kawsar Tushar, Iffat Jahan Antara, Dipto Das, Priyank Chandra, Tanjir Rashid Soron, Md Munirul Haque, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
ICTD2020: Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development DOI: 10.1145/3392561.3394643
Towards Developing A Mobile-Based Care for Children with ASD (mCARE) in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) like Bangladesh
Munirul M. Haque, Dipranjan Das Dipal, Masud Rabbani, Md Ishrak Islam Zarif, Anik Iqbal, Shaheen Akhter, Shahana Parveen, Mohammad Rasel, Basana Rani Muhuri, Tanjir Soron, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
In proceedings of the 2020 IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), p. 746-753 DOI: 10.1109/COMPSAC48688.2020.0-170

2019

Prottoy: A Smart Phone Based Mobile Application to Detect Autism of Children in Bangladesh
Satu, S, M., Azad, S, Haque, F, M., Soron, T, R,. Mamun, Ak
4th International Conference on Electrical Information and Communication Technology (EICT), 20-22 December 2019, Khulna, Bangladesh DOI: 10.1109/EICT48899.2019.9068815
The sun is no fun without rain: Physical environments affect how we feel about yellow across 55 countries
• Khalek, A.M.A., Akel, A. A., Al-Rasheed, A.S., Antonietti, J.P., Ásgeirsson, Á., Atitsogbe, K., Barma, J.M., Barratt, D., Bogushevskaya, V., Meziane, M.K.B., Chamseddine, A., Charernboon, T., Chkonia, E., Ciobanu, T., Corona, V., Creed, A., Dael, N., Daouk, H., Dimitrova, N., Doorenbos, C.B., Fomins, S., Pedrero, E.F., Gaspar, A., Gizdic, A., Griber, Y., Grimshaw, G., Hasan, A.A., Havelka, J., Hirnstein, M., Karlsson, B., Kim, J., Konstantinou, N., Laurent, E., Lindeman, M., Manav, B., Marquardt, L., Mefoh, P., Wasowicz, A.M., Mutandwa, P., Ngabolo, G., Muthusi, S., Oberfeld, D., Pastou, M.P., Perchtold, C.M., de Albéniz, A.P., Pouyan, N., Soron, T.R., Roinishvili, M., Romanyuk, L., Montejo, A.S., Sultanova, A., Tau, R., Uusküla, M., Vainio, S., Soto, V.V., Volkan, E., Wąsowicz, G., Zdravković, S., Zhang, M., Mohr, C.
Journal of Environmental Psychology DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101350
The use of information communication technologies among children with autism spectrum disorders: a descriptive qualitative study
Ntalindwa, T., Soron, T.R., Nduwingoma, M., Karangwa, E., White, R.
JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting. 2(2), pp. 1-8. DOI: 10.2196/12176
“I will kill myself”–The series of posts in Facebook and unnoticed departure of a life.
Soron, T.R.
Asian journal of psychiatry, 44, pp.55-57. DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2019.07.002