Commissioners

The Commissioners working on The Lancet Commission on Stigma and Discrimination have been selected worldwide due to their expertise in mental health stigma. They provide contributions to the conceptionalization and design of the Commission report and are responsible for the acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation, relevant to the topic of the report.

Divided in six Working Groups, the Commissioners will cover themes from defining mental health related stigma and discrimination in the contexts of human rights and social inclusion, to impact, research evidence and practical experiences of delivering stigma reduction programme. The report will aim to produce actionable recommendations by taking into account the roles of the media in destigmatisation and presenting accounts of people with lived experience in mental health.

Learn more about each Commissioner, their area of expertise and institutional affiliation.

Brandon A. Kohrt

Associate Professor, George Washington University

Brandon Kohrt, MD, PhD, is an anthropologist and psychiatrist. Dr. Kohrt completed

Charlotte Hanlon

Adjunct Associate Professor, Ethiopia

Dr Hanlon is a Reader in Global Mental Health at King's College

Claire Henderson

Reader in Public Mental Health, KCL, UK

Claire Henderson is a Clinical Reader in Public Mental Health at the

Dristy Gurung

Research Coordinator, Nepal

Dristy Gurung is a research coordinator at Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) Nepal.

Eshetu Girma

Associate Professor, AAU, Ethiopia

I am trained in the field of Health Promotion and Behavioural Sciences

Eva Heim

Associate Professor, Switzerland

Eva Heim (PhD) is an Associate Professor for Intercultural Clinical Psychology at

Guadalupe Morales Cano

Director, Fundación Mundo Bipolar, Spain

Biography: Guadalupe Morales Cano was born in Mexico D.F, lived in Chile

Heather Stuart

Bell Canada Chair Mental Health & Anti-Stigma Research, Canada

Heather Stuart is the Bell Canada Chair in Mental Health and Anti-stigma

Nicolas Rüsch

Professor of Public Mental Health, Germany

Biography: Nicolas is Professor of Public Mental Health & Consultant Psychiatrist, Germany.

Norman Sartorius

President, AIMHP, Switzerland

Dr Norman Sartorius, MD, MA, DPM, PhD, FRCPsych, was the first Director

Pallab K Maulik

Deputy Director, GIGH, India

Pallab is the Deputy Director & Director of Research, George Institute for

Petr Winkler

Head of Department of Public Mental Health, Czech Republic

As a head of the Department of Public Mental Health, NIMH CZ,

Rangaswamy Thara

SCARF, Chennai, India

The Schizophrenia International Research Society has named Rangaswamy Thara, Ph.D., FRCPsych, the

Sarah Kline

Co-Founder & Deputy CEO, United for GMH, UK

Sarah has developed and delivered successful national and international campaigns and initiatives

Uta Ouali

Senior Psychiatrist, University of Tunis, Tunisia

Uta Ouali currently works as a senior psychiatrist at the Department Psychiatry

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