We aim to reduce the treatment gap for perinatal depression in Pakistan, the South Asian region and other low resource settings globally. One of the barriers to scaling up of evidence-based interventions is the scarcity of specialists to deliver such interventions or train and supervise Community worker (word peers/lay workers) for its delivery instead. Another impasse is the paucity of implementation research capacity in low resource settings to help un-pack and systematically study the challenges of scaling-up evidence-based mental health interventions across diverse settings.

ENHANCE is a four year long research programme, funded by the National Institute for Health Research, UK (NIHR) to the University of Liverpool, UK. Building on our existing global mental health research work and implementation experience within the south Asian region, through ENHANCE we will address the above mentioned barriers by undertaking the following;