Governance

Chris Underhill

Chris is the co-founder of citiesRISE, and a global expert in the delivery of health and rehabilitation systems to very poor people. A serial social entrepreneur he is the founder of BasicNeeds which concerns the delivery of a holistic model to mentally ill people and people with epilepsy in resource poor communities worldwide. In addition to BasicNeeds, he has founded a number of organizations related to disability and mental health, including Thrive, and Action on Disability and Development. Chris has served as chief executive of Practical Action and is currently Chair of Carers Worldwide and the International Centre for Social Franchising. Chris is a Senior Fellow of the Ashoka Fellowship, a recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur. Chris has been honored as an MBE by the Queen for his services to disability and development.

Arthur Evans

Arthur is a clinical and community psychologist, health care innovator and current Chief Executive Officer at the American Psychological Association (APA) as of March 2017. Prior to joining the APA, Arthur spent 12 years as the commissioner of Philadelphia’s Department of Behavior Health and Intellectual Disability Service. He realigned the agency’s treatment philosophy, service delivery models and fiscal policies to improve health outcomes and increase the efficiency of the service system. Arthur has been recognized nationally and internationally for his work in behavior health care policy and service delivery innovation and holds faculty appointments at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Drexel University School of Public Health and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Arthur holds a doctorate in clinical/community psychology from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in experimental psychology from Florida Atlantic University, where he also completed his undergraduate work.

John Boyd

John has over 12 years of experience within the public health sector. He is Sutter Health’s System CEO for Mental Health Services & Chair of California’s Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission. John was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the State of California Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, and is serving his second term in that capacity. He worked eight years for Shriners Hospitals for Children, both domestically and internationally, serving in both local and system-wide capacities. Additionally, John Boyd has worked as both an inpatient and outpatient therapist in several organizations throughout his career.

Brad Herbert

Brad Herbert has over 30 years of experience in international development with a focus in the social sectors including health and education. He was with the World Bank for 27 years where he spent the majority of his tenure based in developing countries. At the Global Fund Brad was the Chief of Operations and responsible for their multi-billion grant program in over 130 countries. As a result of years of development experience and leadership roles, Brad brings a practical, results-oriented approach to program policy, development, and accelerated implementation of health and education projects. Brad also lead and managed the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council in Geneva, is a founding Trustee of the Global Campaign for Mental Health, London, and engaged with Mothers 2 Mothers, Cape Town.

Norman Sartorius

Professor Norman Sartorius is Professor of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Switzerland and former Director of the Division of Mental Health of the World Health Organization.
Professor Sartorius is an eminent figure in the field of international mental health. He has been instrumental in bringing science to mental health by establishing the first internationally-agreed upon classification of mental disorders that can be applied in both the developed and developing countries. Professor Sartorius’s work called attention to the high frequency and the importance of mental disorders throughout the world, including in developing countries. His contribution is important for the recognition and forms a basis for treatment of psychiatric disorders in primary health care. Dr. Sartorius studied medicine in Zagreb and subsequently trained in psychiatry. He started working with the WHO in 1967, serving in Southeast Asia and other regions. He became Director of WHO Division of Mental Health in 1977, a position he held for more than 20 years.

Dr. Sartorius is actively involved in a number of professional associations including serving as President of the World Psychiatric Association and President of the Association of European Psychiatrists.

Prabha Chandra

Dr. Prabha S.Chandra, is a Professor and Head of Psychiatry at NIMHANS, Bangalore, India. She studied at the Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi and NIMHANS.

She has served as a Temporary Advisor to the WHO and UNAIDS and is the Secretary of the International Association of Women’s Mental Health, a nominated member of the World Psychiatric Association and an executive member of the Marce International society. She has been an NHS International Fellow and Consultant in Manchester, UK and a visiting professor at the University of Liverpool.

Her main areas of interest are Women’s Mental Health, Perinatal Psychiatry, teaching methods, ethics and palliative care. She has nearly 180 publications and has edited several books. She has started the first dedicated psychiatry service including a Mother Baby unit in South Asia for mothers with severe mental illness.

Kelly Davis

Kelly Davis’s lived experience with mental health diagnoses and trauma are at the center of her passion for transforming how we support individuals and change systems and services. She currently works in Peer Advocacy, Supports, and Services, where she is involved in promoting peer support, peer certification, youth and young adult leadership, and college mental health.

She is passionate about trauma-informed care, peer support, consumer-led transformation, positive psychology, and civil rights. She serves in an advisory role to the Well Being Trust, The Support Network, and the Center for Law and Social Policy. She has spoken at many events, including The White House Making Health Care Better Series on Mental Health, and has been featured in media outlets including NBC Nightly News, The Mighty, Thrive Global, Yes! Magazine, and Mashable.

Sanjeev Khagram

Sanjeev Khagram is a world-renowned scholar and practitioner in the areas of globalization, transnationalism, leadership, strategic management, entrepreneurship, social enterprise, cross-sector innovation, public-private partnerships, inter-organizational networks, good governance, transparency, the global political economy, sustainable development, human security, and the data revolution. He holds a bachelor’s in development studies and engineering, a master’s degree and doctoral degree minor in economics and doctorate in political economy, all from Stanford University. He has worked extensively with global start-ups, corporations, governments, civil society groups, multilateral organizations, cross-sectoral action networks, public-private partnerships, foundations, professional associations and universities all over the world from the local to the international levels. He has lived and worked for extended periods in Brazil, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Thailand, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Sean Mayberry

Sean is the Founder and Executive Director of StrongMinds. StrongMinds uses its own unique depression intervention based on Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy, a low-cost, proven methodology that has reduced depression symptoms for over 80% of the women treated in Uganda. In 2013, he founded StrongMinds with the goal of ending the depression epidemic on the sub-continent. He is a former diplomat and social marketer who believes that there are simple and cost-effective interventions which can improve mental health. For years Sean implemented successful HIV/AIDS and malaria programs in Africa and saw firsthand the struggles of the mentally ill.

Glen Moriarty

Glen Moriarty is a psychologist who is passionate about the Internet’s power to help people lead better lives. He has been involved in a number of services and organizations that support people in need. 7 Cups of Tea is his most recent endeavor; marrying his background in psychology with his love for technology. Glen lives with his wife, Nicole, and their four children, Colin, Madeliene, Avery, and London.

Pat McGorry

Professor Patrick McGorry is the Executive Director of Orygen, Professor of Youth Mental Health at The University of Melbourne, and a Director of the Board of the National Youth Mental Health Foundation (headspace). He is a world-leading researcher in the area of early psychosis and youth mental health, and has a strong interest in promoting the mental health of the homeless, refugees and asylum seekers. His work has played a critical role in the development of safe, effective treatments and innovative research into the needs of young people with emerging mental disorders, notably psychotic and severe mood disorders. He has also played a major part in the transformational reform of mental health services to better serve the needs of vulnerable young people.

Katherine Switz

Katherine is the Founder and Executive Director of The Stability Network and is successfully living with bipolar disorder with recurrent psychosis, suicidal depression, anxiety and OCD.The Stability Network brings together successful professionals speaking out about their mental health conditions in order to help others get the quality care they need to recover. Katherine is Senior Advisor at Camber Collective, a strategy consulting firm that helps social impact organizations to navigate complex change and achieve high performance.

Jeb Brugmann

Jeb is the director of Solutions Development and Innovation at 100 Resilient Cities which is pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation. Previously Jeb founded the Local Governments for Sustainability Initiative (ICLEI) and was a managing partner at The Next Practice, an innovation consultancy for 12 years. He has over 30 years of professional experience working with local governments and the corporate sector in 28 countries. Jeb holds a master’s degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and has been awarded the Millennium Award for Best Sustainability Initiative of the European Environmental Agency/Princes’ Foundation. He is the author of Welcome of the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World.

Thomas Ermacora

Thomas is a regeneration architect, impact entrepreneur and futures thinker, helping communities, developers and local authorities making better and happier places. He is the producer, design director and co-author of Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures. Thomas is the founder and creative director Clear Village, a strategic regeneration non-profit organization, LimeWharf, a cultural innovation center, and Machines Room, a prototyping space and futures laboratory for artistic and technological projects. Thomas holds a master’s in Geography focusing on sustainability and urban design from the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne and participated in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management’s Start-Up Program.

Sitawa Wafula

Sitawa Wafula is a blogger and nomadic mental health crusader. She’s using her personal journey as a rape survivor living with a dual diagnosis of epilepsy and bipolar disorder to provide people in Africa with information and support to handle mental health conditions and deal with everyday life. Wafula is also an Aspen New Voices Fellow with the Aspen Institute, USA and a non-communicable disease champion under the Ministry of Health in her home country, Kenya. She is supporting citiesRISE’s youth engagement program and brings in her own challenges and triumphs as a youth leader to support citiesRISE work.

Charlene Sunkel

Charlene is the Principal Coordinator for the Movement for Global Mental Health based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1991 she was exposed to the challenges experienced by persons with mental disorders within and outside of the mental health sector. In 2014 she joined the South African Federation for Mental Health as program manager for advocacy and development and now she serves on a number of national and international boards and committees such as the Advisory Board of the Movement for Global Mental Health, the editorial advisory board of the Lancet Psychiatry and the management board of the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders Alliance among others.

Patricio Marquez

Patricio is the lead public health specialist at the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice of the World Bank, coordinating the Global Tobacco Control and Mental Health Initiatives. Since July 2014, he has been part of the World Bank Group team that designed the Ebola Emergency Response Program for West Africa. Before assuming this role, he served as Human Development Sector Leader for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as for Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Prior, he served as Health Cluster Leader for the countries in Southern Africa in 2011-2012 and worked in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region over 2004-2011. Patricio, originally from Ecuador, has worked in more than 50 countries in Africa, Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, East Asia, and the Pacific since 1988.

Craig Kramer

Craig is the Mental Health Ambassador and Chair, Global Campaign for Mental Health, in Neuroscience External Affairs at Janssen R&D, a Johnson & Johnson company. In this capacity, Craig leads a Johnson & Johnson team that seeks to transform mental health care globally by raising awareness, reducing stigma, promoting research, improving access, and ensuring better patient outcomes. Key initiatives include a global leaders’ coalition to champion proven, scalable reforms, and a CEO roundtable to develop “next-in-class” workplace mental health practices. Prior to this role, Craig held a variety of positions in global corporate and government affairs at Johnson & Johnson and worked as a lawyer in the U.S. Congress, a Washington, D.C., law firm, and an international human rights organization. He is a graduate of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, the University of Michigan School of Law, and Harvard Business School’s General Management Program.

Lian Zeitz

Lian Zeitz has been an active contributor to the philosophical underpinning of citiesRISE and leads international youth activities. Prior to joining citiesRISE, Lian worked with therapeutic programs for struggling youth in 15 states in the US to identify pathways for young people to play a greater role in their own care and the development of mental health programs. He has also worked internationally on areas such as suicide prevention, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse in Bhutan, Indonesia, and Zambia. He frequently speaks at national and international conferences about student experiences in therapeutic programs, trauma-focused community development, and pathways to successful transitions in life. Lian earned a B.A. from Quest University Canada, where he focused on public health and international development, and a certificate for Leadership in Mental Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.