Public Lecture: Mental Health Services Reform

The UCD Equality Studies Centre at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice

invites you to attend a public lecture by 

Dr Shari McDaid

Campaigning for Mental Health Rights: A View from the Field 

Shari McDaid was appointed Director of Mental Health Reform, the national coalition advocating for reform of the mental health system, in October 2013. She has been a member of the Healthy Ireland Council, the National Taskforce on Youth Mental Health, the Disability Stakeholders Group and is currently on the Oversight Group for the review of A Vision for Change. Shari joined Mental Health Reform as Policy Officer in 2011. Prior to that, Shari worked with Amnesty International Ireland from 2008 to 2011 as Policy Officer on its mental health campaign. She was previously Policy Officer at the National Disability Authority and Policy and Administration Manager at Shine. Shari received her PhD in 2008 from the Equality Studies Centre at UCD, with a thesis entitled 'Power, Empowerment and User Involvement in the Public Mental Health Services in Ireland'. Shari co-edited with Prof. Agnes Higgins the text 'Mental Health in Ireland: Policy, practice and law', published in 2014 by Gill and Macmillan. 

6:30 pm on

Thursday, November 15^th 2018

 at the William Fry Theatre, UCD Sutherland School of Law, Belfield, Dublin 4