A leading cause of global disability, depression is widespread among women in low- and middle- income countries (LMIC). Poverty plays a major role in depression via multiple pathways, while depression worsens poverty, compromising economic productivity. Efforts to increase access to depression treatment in LMIC have been hampered by low treatment uptake/engagement and weak treatment effects. Recently, researchers & policy makers have pointed to the importance of poverty alleviation in the fight again the global depression pandemic. Our ongoing NIMH funded study, ASHA, is implementing an integrated poverty alleviation/depression treatment intervention for low-income women in rural Bangladesh, designed to break the toxic cycle of poverty and depression. The ASHA project is a randomized controlled trial testing an integrated depression treatment/economic empowerment intervention against conventional depression treatment alone. Addressing the epidemic of depression and related common mental disorders in low- and middle- income countries requires innovative intervention approaches. A young, diversified scientific workforce is key to improving science in this area. This application describes a fellowship training program, via the Diversity Supplement mechanism, that will offer intensive training to a young psychologist who is the first in her family to attend college. Ms. Shidad will participate in didactic, pragmatic, and hands on research and training activities both in the US and in Bangladesh. She will work closely with ASHA PIs and will conduct a small-scale study of the social network impacts of the ASHA trial. The traineeship will support Ms. Shidad’s graduate school applications and prepare her in other ways for a career in global mental health.