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Dr Nayreen Daruwalla leads the Prevention of Violence against Women and Children Program at SNEHA in Mumbai (www.snehamumbai.org). She has been working to prevent gender-based violence for the last two decades, particularly through mental health counselling and crisis intervention for survivors, community mobilisation, and public engagement through art and research. Her interest in developing prevention models in low-income contexts has led to SNEHA’s convergence model, which includes capacity building and training to support institutional responses to gender-based violence (including health, law enforcement and the legal system) and advocacy. Dr David Osrin is Professor of Global Health at UCL (www.ucl.ac.uk/igh) and a Wellcome Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science. Based in Mumbai since 2004 in a research partnership with SNEHA (www.snehamumbai.org), his main interest is in community action to improve the health of women and children in informal settlements. He has worked on participatory and community-based model interventions to improve maternal and newborn survival, childhood nutrition and immunisation, and family planning. His current focus is on prevention of violence against women and girls.