Claudia Sartor is Deputy CEO at the Global Mental Health Peer Network and a global advocacy leader in lived experience, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She leads GMHPN’s Experts by Experience Consultancy Services Unit, which centres lived experience in service delivery and stakeholder engagement. Her work focuses on integrating lived experience into research, advocacy, and mental health systems globally. Claudia also lectures internationally and contributes to key publications promoting the value of lived experience in global mental health.
Some of her key publications:
1. Sartor, C., & Hussian, M. (2024). Mental health implementation science: integrating lived experience expertise. The lancet. Psychiatry.
2. Sartor, C. (2023). Mental health and lived experience: The value of lived experience expertise in global mental health. Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 10, E38. doi:10.1017/gmh.2023.24
3. MHM Magazine (ihpublishing.com), The South African Depression and Anxiety Group Mental Health Matters Magazine, 2023, Vol 10, page 27-28, https://www.sadag.org/
4. Sunkel, C., & Sartor, C. (2022). Perspectives: involving persons with lived experience of mental health conditions in service delivery, development and leadership. BJPsych bulletin, 46(3), 160–164. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2021.51
5. Mburu, E., & Sartor, C. (2022). Centering lived experience in anti-stigma programmes. Lancet (London, England), 400(10361), 1389–1391. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01886-4