Aastha is the Project & Policy Officer for the Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention (CPSP), University of Edinburgh. She has been working with the Chief Minister’s Office of Maharashtra as a Strategy Consultant for Public Health and is currently coordinating CPSP’s work in Maharashtra to help eliminate pesticide suicides. She pursued Psychology from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi followed by a Masters in Development Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.