MEDIA RESOURCES
Industry-independent mental health experts
The Centre for Mental Health, Human Rights, and Social Justice provides expert analysis, research insights, and critical perspectives on global and regional issues at the intersection of mental health, human rights, and social justice. Our team includes leading scholars, advocates, and practitioners who challenge harmful policies, promote rights-based reforms, and centre the voices of directly impacted communities.
We welcome inquiries from journalists seeking expert opinions, interviews, and background information on
Our Areas of Expertise:
- Mental Health & Human Rights – Legal and policy frameworks, medical coercion, psychiatric detention, community-based alternatives.
- Decolonizing Mental Health – Challenging colonial influences in mental health policy and practice, promoting lived experience leadership.
- Housing & Mental Health – Housing First models, homelessness, and the right to housing for individuals with psychosocial disabilities.
- Policing & Crisis Response – Rights-based approaches to crisis intervention, alternatives to police involvement in mental health emergencies.
- Global Mental Health & Policy Reform – Critical perspectives on global mental health initiatives, resisting neoliberal policy agendas.
- Reproductive Justice & Mental Health – Intersection of reproductive rights and mental health, advocacy for reproductive autonomy.
- Corporate Influence & Mental Health – The role of pharmaceutical and corporate actors in shaping mental health systems and policies.
- Harm Reduction & Mental Health – Human rights approaches to drug policy and mental health, alternatives to criminalization.
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How to Connect with Us
For media inquiries, expert interviews, or requests for comment, please contact us at: info@hrdp.essex.ac.uk
Let us help you tell stories that challenge injustice, highlight solutions, and bring human rights to the forefront of mental health conversations.
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We are a global community
We are an international, multi-disciplinary network of scholars and activists, dedicated to the study of human rights based approaches to mental health law, policy and practices.