Our team

Cristian Montenegro is a medical sociologist and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London. He is an honorary affiliate at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, co-founder of the Programa de Investigación en Salud Mental Global at Universidad Andrés Bello (Chile), and an affiliate of the King's Brazil Institute. His research focuses on psychiatric reform, global mental health, and the role of social science in mental health systems transformation.

Madelene supports the day-to-day coordination of the Transitions project, assisting with logistics, communications, and administrative processes across institutions. She plays a key role in ensuring smooth collaboration between team members, partners, and advisory board participants.

Public health specialist with extensive experience in community mental health services, policy advising, and academic leadership. Director of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre in Mental Health at the University of Chile.

Psychologist and academic focused on community-based mental health, service design, and participatory approaches. Leads applied research and training initiatives, and coordinates the Mental Health Program at the School of Public Health.

Psychiatrist and professor with expertise in child and adolescent mental health, psychiatric reform, and public policy. Leads the LEPSIA research group and serves as National Secretary of WAPR-Brasil.

Clinical psychologist and researcher focused on early psychosis, social drivers of mental illness, and Housing First policy in Brazil. She works at the intersection of clinical practice, policy, and research in the U.S. and Latin America.

Cultural historian researching psychiatry, violence, and decolonisation in 20th-century Europe and beyond. She leads major projects on transcultural psychiatry and the global history of the psyche. Head of the Centre for Culture and the Mind.

ICREA Research Professor in medical anthropology focused on psychiatry, neuroscience, and global mental health. Member of the Global Social Medicine Network and former professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.

Historian of psychiatry and public health, with work on social psychiatry, deinstitutionalization, and ADHD. Co-editor of Mental Health in Historical Perspective book series.

Legal scholar focused on mental health, drug policy, and human rights. Director of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy and co-founder of the Centre for Mental Health, Human Rights, and Social Justice.

Historian of medicine and global health, specialising in socialist health systems, epidemics, and Cold War politics. Leads major international projects on global health history and is President of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health.

Mental health researcher, antimanicomial activist, and service user. Organizer of Brazil’s 1st and 2nd National Free Conferences of Mental Health Service Users. Member of several national collectives including FASM Nacional and the Tá Pirando, Pirado, Pirou! carnival collective.

Medical anthropologist researching psychiatric reform, adolescence, and global health policy. Co-leads the ethnographic sub-study of the Pelotas Birth Cohort and writes across anthropology, psychiatry, and Latin American studies.

Physician and public health researcher focused on community mental health, social inclusion, and stigma. Director of the Institute of Health Sciences at UOH and PI of applied research on mental health and autism in Chile.

Clinical psychologist and mental health researcher based in Buenos Aires. Co-founder of Proyecto Suma, where he leads research on recovery, stigma, peer support, and evaluation of mental health services.

Pyschologyst, public health health specialist and Chief of Mental Health Department, Ministry of Health, Chile.