India, Feb. 3 -- Wellcomehas awarded £5.3 million to Bengaluru-based Wysato fund a scale-upstudythat will adapt a clinically validated digital mental health intervention for adolescent girls living in rural India, a population facing some of the most significant mental health inequalities globally.

The funding will support research led by Wysa, whose digital mental health interventions have been studied in peer-reviewed research and deployed across public health systems and healthcare programmes internationally. Working with academic and community partners in the UK and India, the project will adapt an evidence-based intervention to address anxiety and depression among adolescent girls.

India is home to more than 253 million adoles...