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  • Our Team
    • Global Office
    • Board of Management
  • The Network
    • Regional Coordinators
    • Regional Executive Committee
    • Country Leadership Committee
    • Our Mentors
    • Honorary Members
  • NEWS
    • Partners
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  • OUR SERVICES
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Engagement: Consultation & Decision-Making
High-level Engagement
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Conversation with UN Secretary General

Secretary-General António Guterres had a three-way video call with frontline mental health workers, Mr. Umair Bachlani in Pakistan and Ms. Charlene Sunkel (GMHPN Founder/CEO) in South Africa. The conversation revolved around the impact of the COVID pandemic on mental health.

WHO Guidance and Technical Packages on Community Mental Health Services

Our Founder/CEO, Charlene Sunkel, was involved in the review process and participated in the launch on 10 June 2021.

The WHO Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches is a set of publications that provides information and support to all stakeholders who wish to develop or transform their mental health system and services to align with international human rights standards including the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health UK

We participated in engagement sessions and interviews to provide our perspectives in light of the development of this new report titled "New Directions for the Mental Health Workforce Globally" by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health (UK).
FIND OUT MORE AND DOWNLOAD THE REPORT
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Representation

Being Council

Being is an international mental health initiative, working toward a world where young people feel well and thrive. It is hosted by Grand Challenges Canada in partnership with Fondation Botnar, United for Global Mental Health, Global Affairs Canada and The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care using UK aid through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). 

GMHPN Founder/CEO, Charlene Sunkel, serves on the Being’s Council which provide global expert advice on the strategy and direction of Being.

HBGI Lived Experience Council

Healthy Brains Global Initiative (HBGI) fully embeds the perspectives of people most affected by mental and neurological health research in both its strategy and action.

The HBGI Lived Experience Council, brings together people with lived experience across a wide variety of ages, locations, conditions, and ethnicities to help build HBGI from the bottom-up.

Our Founder/CEO, Charlene Sunkel, along with a few other of our members, serve on the Lived Experience Council.

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The Global Mental Health Peer Network is registered as a Non-Profit Organisation (NPO 212-449) under the South African Non-Profit Organisations Act 71 of 1997, and is registered as a Public Benefit Organisation (PBO 930065563) with the South African Revenue Services.

The Global Mental Health Peer Network is kindly supported ​by the Foundation to Promote Open Society (FPOS)