Telepsychiatry Research & Innovation Network
Dhaka, Bangladesh
TRIN studies the distance between a person who needs help and the care that exists — in Korail, in garment factories, in districts with no psychiatrist at all — then builds and tests what closes it.
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Four strands, and each one feeds the others — what the field teaches becomes a study, and what a study proves becomes a training programme.
Strand 01 · Research
Access, stigma, digital screening and delivery — from Bangla autism assessment to serious mental disorders in Korail.
16 projects →Strand 02 · Training
Doctors, nurses and community health workers, so that care stops depending on a few hundred psychiatrists.
Programmes →Strand 03 · Clinical
Consultation, psychotherapy and assessment, in person and over distance for people who cannot travel.
Services →Strand 04 · Tools
Building and validating the instruments themselves — mobile care platforms, screening tools, well-being indices.
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Founder & Managing Director
MBBS, MPH, MD (Psychiatry), MSc (Global eHealth)
Dr. Soron is a psychiatrist and researcher working on how mental health care can be delivered through technology and evidence-based intervention. Trained in psychiatry and global eHealth, he leads TRIN's work on making quality mental health services reach underserved populations.
01 · Suicide prevention
On 22 April 2026 the Telepsychiatry Research and Innovation Network (TRIN) conducted a day-long training in Sylhet, bringing together 23 local reporters from across Bangladesh to strengthen their knowledge and capacity for responsible media reporting on suicide prevention.
Participants were guided through WHO's LIVE LIFE guidelines — an evidence-based framework for ethical and empathetic reporting on suicide. The day focused on integrating those guidelines into the media delivery mechanisms that already exist, on establishing monitoring systems, and on reducing the risk of suicide contagion — copycat suicide — through more informed journalism.
Full write-up to follow
02 · Capacity building
Spearheaded by the Telepsychiatry Research and Innovation Network Ltd. (TRIN), this programme conducts Training of Trainers and Supervisors (ToTS) on the WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP), and the mhGAP training sessions that follow it, in Sylhet, Kurigram, Netrokona, Sherpur and Chapainawabganj.
The objective is to enhance the capacity of local healthcare providers to manage mental health conditions effectively, and through that to improve mental health service delivery across these five districts. Training trainers and supervisors first is the point: it leaves each district with people who can teach and supervise the next group without waiting for Dhaka.
03 · Climate and mental health
This pilot initiative develops and tests a neuroscience-informed, co-produced mental health training programme built specifically for climate-displaced women living in Korail Slum, Dhaka. It runs from 2025 to 2026, with TRIN as principal investigator.
Co-produced means the content is shaped with the women it is for rather than handed to them finished — the co-design workshops come before the curriculum. Neuroscience-informed means it explains, in plain terms, what displacement and sustained stress do to sleep, attention, memory and mood. The work is funded by the Wellcome Trust and the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) under grant reference 25NCAMH-7852868876.
Funded by Wellcome Trust · IBRO — grant 25NCAMH-7852868876
We hire researchers, clinicians and field staff for specific projects, and we are always open to research collaboration — particularly where it overlaps with access, digital delivery or low-resource settings.
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