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CHARLENE SUNKELFounder & Chief Executive OfficerMs Sunkel is the Founder/ CEO of the Global Mental Health Peer Network (www.gmhpn.org). She is a global mental health advocate with lived experience with schizophrenia. She has published internationally on issues related to mental health and human rights, stigma and the needs of people with mental illness in low- and middle-income countries. Ms Sunkel has been involved in provided technical assistance to national and international mental health related policies, reports and documents. She serves on a number of international boards and committees, and received a number of national and international awards for her work.
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CLAUDIA SARTORDeputy Chief Executive OfficerClaudia is a global mental health advocacy leader whose passion for mental health was inspired by having personal experience living with anxiety and ADHD. After undergoing treatment, Claudia chose to pursue a career in mental health. She is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Global Mental Health Peer Network (“GMHPN”). She manages GMHPN’s youth related activities and programmes and is co-ordinator and facilitator for youth collaboration with other mental health organisations.
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ZAK MARTAHProject Assistant Zakaria is Project Assistant for the Global Mental Health Peer Network and is passionate about helping and advocating for improved care and service delivery of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD’s). His passion for NCD advocacy stems from his lived experience with a brain abscess that caused Epilepsy, Apraxia of speech, and Aphasia. In spite of losing language proficiency in English, Afrikaans, French, and Arabic, he was determined to relearn to speak. The above resulted in experiencing depression.
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