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  • Home
  • Our Team
    • Global Office
    • Board of Management
  • The Network
    • Country Leadership Committee
    • Honorary Members
  • NEWS
    • Partners
    • Engagement
    • Events
    • Newsletters
  • OUR SERVICES
  • OUR PUBLICATIONS
    • Our Policies & Guidelines
    • Our Annual Reports
    • Our Involvement
    • Our Special Reports
    • Our Position Statements
  • FOCUSED INITIATIVES
    • Remuneration Framework
    • Countdown Global Mental Health
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Events: Conferences and Workshops
Our Founder and CEO, Charlene Sunkel, and members Edwin Mutura (Kenya) and Godfrey Kagaayi (Uganda), participated in the Rising Above Stigma 2023 Mental Health Summit, Nairobi, hosted by Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya.
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Our Founder and CEO, Charlene Sunkel Sunkel presented at the World Congress on Psychiatry in Vienna, Austria
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Presentation topics:
- Placing people with lived experience central to anti-stigma efforts
- What the recovery approach means to Psychiatry
- Panel discussion on Coercion and the CRPD​

Ember Sparks Meet-Up in Nairobi Kenya. Our Deputy CEO, Claudia Sartor has participated in a panel discussion with colleagues and funder organisations, on the power of impact of our work to the community and lived experience leadership.

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Our Founder and CEO, Charlene Sunkel, presented at the XXVII Peruvian Congress of Psychiatry 2023 in Lima on "People with lived experience of a mental health condition in service delivery - Perspectives for change" and "Stigma and mental health in people living with mental health conditions".

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GMHPN Founder/CEO, Charlene Sunkel, delivered a video recorded presentation at the 2023 Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society in Toronto. Her presentation addressed "Experts By Experience - Key Partners in Research".
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GMHPN CEO, Charlene Sunkel and Deputy CEO, Claudia Sartor presented at the first South African Mental Health Conference in Johannesburg in April 2023.

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A team from the GMHPN participated in the Rethinking Mental Health Care conference, hosted by FGIP in Vilnius, Lithuania, in September 2022.

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GMHPN hosted a pre-conference (Rethinking Mental Health Care) workshop with Lithuanian service users about best practices in empowerment and engaging people with lived experience. A position statement was drafted and presented to the Lithuanian Ministry of Health.
Vilnius 2022 - Lived Experience Position Statement
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File Type: pdf
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GMHPN Founder/CEO participated in the Giving Women Annual Conference 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Discussing mental health around the world ...

Visiting places around the world ...

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.