Stakeholder Register

Associated Organisation:
Betwixt

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Hazel Gale is a bestselling author (The Mind Monster Solution), ex-athlete and Master Practitioner of Cognitive Hypnotherapy and Clinical Hypnosis working with Olympic athletes, creatives and professionals. Over a decade of competition, Hazel achieved multiple World, European and National titles in kickboxing and boxing. Following a burnout in 2009, she qualified as a therapist in order to devote her time to helping others win their own emotional battles. Hazel runs a private practice in London, and facilitates workshops and digital courses to teach self-awareness and emotional resilience.

Andrew Turtle

Associated Organisation:
The Global Now Project, Global Mental Health Peer Network

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Advocate, Consumer

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Bonginkosi Chiliza

Associated Organisation:
The Africa Global Mental Health Institute

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CEO

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Bonginkosi Chiliza is a co-director of the Global Mental Health Institute as well as the Associate Professor/Chief Specialist and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He completed his medical degree and psychiatry specialization at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and his PhD at Stellenbosch University. His research interests include: - Schizophrenia - Consultation-liaison psychiatry - Health services - Medical education. Bonginkosi Chiliza is the Deputy Editor of the South African Journal of Psychiatry, as well as the President-Elect of the South African Society of Psychiatrists. Prof Chiliza has received a number of awards including the Hamilton Naki Clinical Research Fellowship and the CINP Rafaelsen Young Investigators Award. He has authored over 50 peer reviewed articles and book chapters. He has also served on a number of NGO Boards, including the SA YMCA and Life Choices. He is one of the Founding Directors of Harambee Medical Consulting and African Global Mental Health Institute.

Daniel Freeman

Associated Organisation:
Paranoid Thoughts

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Professor

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Daniel Freeman is a Professor of Clinical Psychology, and a Medical Research Council (MRC) Senior Clinical Fellow, in the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford University, and a Fellow of University College, Oxford. He is also an honorary consultant clinical psychologist in Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

David C Henderson MD

Associated Organisation:
The Africa Global Mental Health Institute

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CEO

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David C. Henderson is the co-director of the Africa Global Mental Health Institute. David is also the professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine as well as the psychiatrist-in-Chief at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Henderson previously served as Director of The Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Director of the MGH Schizophrenia Clinical and Research Program, and Medical Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma. Dr. Henderson serves as Co-Director of the NIMH T32 MGH-BUSM Global Mental Health Clinical Research Fellowship. He has worked internationally for the past 21 years in resource-limited settings, and areas impacted by mass violence, disasters and complex emergencies. Dr. Henderson has conducted research and training programs in Bosnia, Cambodia, East Timor, Ethiopia, Haiti, Liberia, New Orleans, New York City, Rwanda and Peru, South Africa, and Somaliland among other places. His work has consisted of field studies, needs assessments, mental health policy development and strategic planning, quantitative and qualitative surveys, mental health capacity building programs for specialized and primary health professionals, and skill-transfer program evaluation. In the United States, he has conducted more than 30 randomized clinical trials in severely mentally ill populations. Dr. Henderson has also directed a schizophrenia research training fellowship, and mentored trainees and junior faculty who have progressed to K awards and secured other independent funding. He actively mentors 10 psychiatry residents and 4 postdoctoral fellows on data-driven international research projects

Dr Adam Halberstadt

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Associate Professor, Professor

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Dr Adam Halberstadt is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine who is working alongside Dr Jason Wallach with the COMPASS team. COMPASS focuses on developing optimised psychedelic and related compounds targeting the 5-HT2A receptor, which is believed to mediate the potential therapeutic effects of psychedelics.

Dr Jason Wallach

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Professor

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Dr Jason Wallach is an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at USciences. Jason is leading the work of the Discovery Center with the COMPASS team. The COMPASS team focuses on developing optimised psychedelic and related compounds targeting the 5-HT2A receptor, which is believed to mediate the potential therapeutic effects of psychedelics.

Dr John D McCorvy

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Associate Professor

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Dr John D McCorvy is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Wisconsin. John is working with the Discovery Center under a sponsored research agreement with University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USciences) that focuses on developing optimised psychedelic and related compounds targeting the 5-HT2A receptor, which is believed to mediate the potential therapeutic effects of psychedelics.

Gary Slagle

Associated Organisation:
Agile Health

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CEO, Founder / Co-Founder

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Gary Slagle is is a co-founder & CEO of Agile Health. Gary began his career in ​systems implementations and process reengineering in the hospital sector with KMPG Peat Marwick in the 1980’s. During the following decade, Gary led mergers, acquisitions, and post-merger integration in the behavioral managed care industry at Magellan Health Services. In the new millennium Gary focused on corporate development, mergers, acquisitions and post-merger integration in the prescription benefit management industry at CaremarkRx. He completed his tenure there as a Senior Vice President for Medicare, leading development of the multi-billion dollar business unit.

Helen Christensen

Associated Organisation:
Black Dog Institute

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Professor

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Scientia Professor Helen Christensen (AO) is Scientia Professor of Mental Health at UNSW Sydney and Board Director of Black Dog Institute (commencing 1 January 2022). She is the former Executive Director and Chief Scientist at Black Dog Institute, having led the organisation from 2011 to 2021. Professor Christensen is a leading expert on using technology to deliver evidence-based interventions for the prevention and treatment of depression, anxiety, suicide, and self-harm. Her research also encompasses prevention of mental health problems in young people through school-based research programs. These programs are aimed at the prevention of depression and suicide risk through eMental Health interventions.

Kate Crawford

Associated Organisation:
National Paranoia Network

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ate started hearing voices aged four. She would see visions of a man and woman in period clothing and also a little girl but they never spoke. After her mum died she was placed in children’s homes. In later years she became homeless, she then met a man who she fell pregnant to. Kate now has four children. Through abusive relationships and constant pressure from social services, she felt she couldn’t take anymore and made a suicide attempt. She was admitted to a psychiatric hospital and given a diagnosis of post traumatic paranoid schizophrenia. Things that help her now are working for the paranoia network, sharing her experiences with other voice hearers and people who experience paranoia. Getting involved in a hearing voices and paranoia support group changed her life.

Marie Angele Abanga

Associated Organisation:
Global Mental Health Peer Network; Hope for the Abused and Battered

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Advocate, Ambassador / Champion, Carer, CEO, Chairperson, Community Member, Consumer

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Marie Angele Abanga (simplified to Marie Abanga) aka MAG likes to describe herself as a “Jacqueline of several trades”. She is an everyday woman and mother with a zigzag profile. Let’s give it a try! She is an Activist, an Author, a Coach, a Consultant, a Feminist, a Lawyer, a Lecturer, a Prince 2 Project Manager, a Psychotherapist, a Philanthropist and above all a spiritualist! She just loves to sum it up by saying she is a person of passions and a tale of talents. Her life’s journey has filled 7 books already and her three musketeers keep her busy at home. MAG is 41 and lives in Douala the economic capital of Cameroon MAG is also the founder and CEO of the association Hope for the Abused and Battered, and the Country Director of the Gabriel Bebonbechem Foundation for Epilepsy & Mental wellbeing. She is also the Global Mental Health Peer Executive representing Cameroon. The plethora of life's experiences and shenanigans she has lived through and learned from in 4 decades of existence, have equipped her with such an arsenal to coach, train and motivate just any and everyone. She is so charismatic, dynamic and full of life, going by her designed mantra of 3Ds: Determination; Discipline and Dedication. These sum her and her quest to be the best version of herself and impact others positively. She attributes all her wealth of knowledge to her conscientious attendance of both informal and formal school. Let's see what she got from formal school below ... Ms Abanga had her LLB Hons from the University of Buea, a Maitrise in Public Law from the University of Yaounde II, a higher Diploma in Transport and Logistics with distinctions from ODECI Cameroon, an LLM in International Law with International Relations from the University of Kent, a P2PM Foundation and Practitioner certification from the US, and a CBT Psychotherapy Diploma with distinctions from the UK. She is an eternal student, currently doing an MSc in professional practice in Leadership Management (healthcare) as a Commonwealth Scholar with the University of Lancaster. MAG can be contacted via her website at www.marieabanga.com and on whatsapp via +237698914754 Visit her association at: https://www.hope4abusedbattered.com/

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Melanie Abas

Associated Organisation:
Centre for Global Mental Health

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Professor

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Professor Melanie Abas is a deputy director of the Centre for Global Mental Health. She has researched, published and mentored widely in the field of depression in low and middle-income countries and in vulnerable migrants in high-income and middle-income countries. This has included developing methods to measure depression, anxiety and trauma-related disorders validly in cross-cultural groups, research to develop and trial interventions, and research to implement and scale-up interventions for depression in low-income countries. My work has had impact, for example for people living in poverty in Zimbabwe and for those caring for trafficked populations in the UK. Professor Melanie Abas has developed models for integrating depression care into primary care and HIV care which have had impact in an African context. This includes being co-investigator on the Friendship Bench program in Zimbabwe, now the largest depression program in any low-income African country. These programs are delivered through task-sharing with non-specialists. She continues to work on expanding these to rural areas of low income countries and to younger age groups. She works on interventions for depression and trauma-related disorders at the interface with physical illness (especially HIV), and at the interface with the priorities of work, education and gender equality. Melanie Abas has a program of research on depression and HIV in Zimbabwe. This includes clinical trials aimed at increasing viral suppression through better approaches to adherence counselling and through improving mental health and economic wellbeing. MHervision of task-sharing to grow access to care for depression and anxiety disorders is expanding to creative arts programs and the private sector. Her work has been characterised by research capacity building. I was a co-principal investigator on a Medical Education Partnership Initiative program, a platform which built capacity across a network of 13 African medical schools, funded by PEPFAR and the NIH . Melanie continues to provide formal research mentorship to two heads of department at the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences as well as supervising Wellcome Trust fellows and PhD students. She is the lead for King's College London of one of the Developing Excellence in Leadership, Training and Science programs funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Department for International Development to build research capacity in African mental health scientists.

Monica Cassani

Associated Organisation:
All Signal & Beyond Meds

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Consumer

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Monica Cassani is the primary contibuter to blogs All Signal & Everything Matters: Beyond Meds which is mostly an archive now.

Peter Bullimore

Associated Organisation:
National Paranoia Network

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Peter is a voice hearer who spent ten years as a psychiatric patient enduring many bouts of severe paranoia. Through learning holistic approaches and with support of the Hearing Voices Network he was able to reclaim his life from the system. He facilitates a hearing voices and paranoia support group in Sheffield. He also runs his own training and consultancy agency, Asylum Associates, and is the founder member of the Paranoia Network. Peter delivers teaching on hearing voices and paranoia internationally. He also teaches on the COPE initiative at Manchester University and currently undertakes a research post at the university looking at a collaborative working between voluntary sector organisations and the university. He is also undertaking research into what recovery means from a service user’s perspective. He co-authored the workbook Asking the Questions with Paul Hammersley and John Read, a guidebook around childhood trauma.

Philippa Garety

Associated Organisation:
Paranoid Thoughts

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Professor

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Philippa Garety is a Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. She is the Clinical Director and Joint Leader of the Psychosis Clinical Academic Group in the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

Ricardo Araya

Associated Organisation:
Centre For Global Mental Health

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Professor

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Ricardo is a director of the Movement For Global Mental Health. Ricardo's research interests include the aetiology of common mental disorders, inequalities and their link to the mental health of populations with special emphasis on international comparisons, and effective treatments for common mental disorders, such as simple and brief interventions using non-medical workers and strong community participation. Several of his current projects use technological platforms to support the delivery of mental health interventions. He is involved in projects in a large number of countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. He has a special interest in projects that integrate mental health problems in the care of other diseases i.e. hypertension, diabetes, HIV and so on.

Ritsuko Kakuma

Associated Organisation:
Centre of Global Mental Health

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Associate Professor

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Dr Ritsuko Kakuma is the co-director of the Movement For Global Mental Health. Risuko is an associate Professor in Global Mental Health and programme Director for MSc in Global Mental Health. Ritsuko has researched, published and mentored widely in the field of depression in low and middle-income countries and in vulnerable migrants in high-income and middle-income countries. This has included developing methods to measure depression, anxiety and trauma-related disorders validly in cross-cultural groups, research to develop and trial interventions, and research to implement and scale-up interventions for depression in low-income countries. Ritsuko's work has had impact, for example for people living in poverty in Zimbabwe and for those caring for trafficked populations in the UK. I have developed models for integrating depression care into primary care and HIV care which have had impact in an African context. This includes being co-investigator on the Friendship Bench program in Zimbabwe, now the largest depression program in any low-income African country. These programs are delivered through task-sharing with non-specialists. I continue to work on expanding these to rural areas of low income countries and to younger age groups. She works on interventions for depression and trauma-related disorders at the interface with physical illness (especially HIV), and at the interface with the priorities of work, education and gender equality. Ritsuko has a program of research on depression and HIV in Zimbabwe. This includes clinical trials aimed at increasing viral suppression through better approaches to adherence counselling and through improving mental health and economic wellbeing. My vision of task-sharing to grow access to care for depression and anxiety disorders is expanding to creative arts programs and the private sector. My work has been characterised by research capacity building. I was a co-principal investigator on a Medical Education Partnership Initiative program, a platform which built capacity across a network of 13 African medical schools, funded by PEPFAR and the NIH . She continue to provide formal research mentorship to two heads of department at the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences as well as supervising Wellcome Trust fellows and PhD students. She is the lead for King's College London of one of the Developing Excellence in Leadership, Training and Science programs funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Department for International Development to build research capacity in African mental health scientists. Ritz Kakuma is an Associate Professor in Global Mental Health and Programme Director for MSc in Global Mental Health at the Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She was a Senior Research Fellow at the Global and Cultural Mental Health Unit (GCMHU), Centre for Mental Health at the University of Melbourne until Dec 2017 and continues to hold an honorary position as a Senior Fellow. She has a background in epidemiology and biostatistics, public health and mental health systems and policy research. Her research and development activities are primarily based in low- and middle-income settings and among culturally and linguistically diverse populations, include: mental health policy and system strengthening, health system evaluation, mental health workforce development, mental health stigma and discrimination research, health policy analysis, policy and community engagement, and health research capacity development. Ritz has experience in conducting both quantitative and qualitative research, systematic reviews and works in partnership with government, non-government organisations and bilateral agencies for research and policy development, consulting with stakeholders to develop community-based mental health services, supporting governments in drafting mental health policies and legislations, developing and delivering training programs on mental health system development.

Scott Werntz

Associated Organisation:
Able To

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Founder / Co-Founder, President

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Scott is the co-founder & president of Able To. Scott has 25 years experience in the pharmacy benefit management and healthcare technology services sectors. He began his career with PCS Health Systems serving in several business analysis, operations and technology roles, and was instrumental in developing much of the company’s suite of product offerings and technical services architecture. In 2003, he joined CaremarkRx, as Vice President of Product Development, providing leadership in the design, delivery, marketing and sales of a series of innovative pharmacy services products.

Shaun Hunt

Associated Organisation:
National Paranoia Network

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Consumer

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Shaun has many years experience of using psychiatric services and has had his own personal battles with experiences such as hearing voices and what some would call paranoia. He has now recovered his life and learnt how to manage his experiences, even during the dark times. Shaun works as a Lecturer delivering training around recovery principles and values to mental health professionals. He is able to draw upon some of his own lived experiences, bringing the theory to life in the learning environment. Shaun has spoken at conferences and delivered training on various mental health topics in a variety of settings both nationally and internationally.

Simon Griffin

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Advocate, Consumer, Peer Worker

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Terry Mclaughlin

Associated Organisation:
National Paranoia Network

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Consumer

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Terence McLaughlin died on 3 September 2007. He was very recently diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, and caught a secondary infection over the weekend before. Terence was born in 1947, and was a militant revolutionary socialist for many years in industry before undertaking a psychology degree, which he completed at Manchester Polytechnic. His PhD ‘Psychology and mental health politics: A critical history of the Hearing Voices Movement’ at Manchester Metropolitan University was examined by Marius Romme in 2000. During the period of his studies and then afterwards he brought radical perspectives to campaigns, conferences and publications against the power of experts to define what is normal and abnormal for others. He was a Co-founder of the National Paranoia Network & until his death, executive editor of Asylum magazine.

Trip Hofer

Associated Organisation:
Able To

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CEO

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Trip Hofer is the CEO of Able To, a technology-enabled provider of behavioral health care, with licensed practitioners in all fifty states. AbleTo analytics, coupled with our highly-trained engagement team, identify unmet behavioral health needs. Using a convenient and secure telehealth approach, we support individuals facing emotional and behavioral challenges brought on by medical events and life transitions. Trip Hofer is a highly accomplished and industry leading senior executive with extensive experience in corporate strategy, business development, organizational realignment, and client management and sales. A proven leader in both entrepreneurial and highly established organizations. Attributes include a decisive, energetic, charismatic leadership style with exceptional team building abilities, using established skills to ensure extraordinary results in productivity, performance and sales through analysis, collaboration and organization at all levels of the business.