🎙️Whose expertise counts when shaping mental health care? People with lived experience of mental health conditions bring knowledge that cannot be gained through clinical training alone. Yet their contributions are still too often treated as less important than those of mental health professionals. In our first episode of Mind. Set. Go!, UnitedGMH's Ali Hasnain asks Dr. Mark van Ommeren, Director of Mental Health at the World Health Organization, how we can challenge this thinking. His response offers an important reminder: lived experience and professional expertise are both needed. ▶️ Watch the conversation and listen to the full episode of Mind. Set. Go!: 🎧 SoundCloud: https://lnkd.in/eB5HpfZP 🎧 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/dEt3JWG6 #MentalHealth #Deinstitutionalisation #WMHD2026
