Professor Peter Bartlett to co-lead the collaboration between the Institute of Mental Health and the World Health Organisation

We are delighted to announce that HRLC member Professor Peter Bartlett will co-lead the new collaboration between the Institute of Mental Health, where he coordinates the Centre for Mental Health and Human Rights, and the World Health Organisation. The partnership aims at understanding and developing policy, education, legal and advocacy programs on mental health and human rights.

He is also the Chair of the newly established Mental Diversity Law Network, a network of approximately 150 academics, people with lived experience of mental difficulties, and other stakeholders with an interest in the law as it relates to mental diversity.

Professor Peter Bartlett’s recent publications on mental health and human rights include:

• ‘A Matter of Engagement: Analysing the Submissions to the CRPD Committee on General Comment #1’. In The Legacies of Institutionalisation, ed C Spivakovsky, L Steele and P Weller. Oxford: Hart. 2020.
• ‘An item response theory analysis of the Forensic Restrictiveness Questionnaire (FRQ)’. [2nd author, with J Tomlin, V Furtado, V Egan, and B Völlm]. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology. DOI: 10.1080/14789949.2020.1771614. Published online (May 2020); hard copy in press.