Professor Claire Henderson

Biography

Professor Claire Henderson  is a Clinical Professor of Public Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN). She is Principal Investigator and co-applicant on several mental health service research and public mental health projects and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She is also Senior Clinical Adviser at King's GKT School of Medical Education, Joint Academic Lead for the Quality Centre at King’s Health Partners, and Director of the Centre for implementation Science at the IoPPN.

Her areas of expertise are in the evaluation of complex interventions in mental health and in evaluation of interventions to reduce mental health related stigma and discrimination.

Professor Henderson has a BA in Physiological Sciences (University of Oxford, 1989), MBChB in Medicine (University of Oxford School of Clinical Medicine, 1992), Masters in Public Health (Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University School of Public Health, 1995), and a Masters in Public Health (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1999).

She completed her PhD studentship at King's College London (1999-2003), worked in the USA for 5 years (New York State Office for Mental Health 2003-06 and Veterans Health Administration 2006-08) and rejoined King's in 2008. She has a PhD in Psychiatry from University of London (2006).

Research interests

• Development and evaluation of interventions both at the service level and societal level.
• Promote empowerment among people with mental health problems with respect to involvement in care, condition self-management, and stigma reduction.
• Investigating recovery colleges, Advance Choice Documents and Culturally Adapted Family Intervention for Black African and Caribbean service users, mental health literacy, and stigma reduction in low- and middle- income countries.

Teaching

• Stigma and discrimination related to mental illness.
• Within the IoPPN, Claire supervises PhD and DClinPsy students, lectures on stigma on MSc and DClinPsy course modules, and supervises MSc student dissertations.
• Within GKT School of Medicine she has been a Senior Personal Tutor since 8/2014; Personal Tutor to MBBS students since 9/2011; examined Phase 2-5 Observed Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs); interviewed applicants to the School; and taught medical students on stigma during their psychiatry rotation.

Expertise and public engagement

• Workshop on disclosure in employment for Mind in Croydon three times a year 2015-2021.
• Pint of Science speaker 14/5/18.
• Panellist, Mental Health Question Time on compulsory admissions live streamed from University College London 24/4/19.