This project is made up of our Lived Experience Leadership Team (LELT), our Project Implementation Committee (PIC) and our experts.
The project is led by the Lived Experience Leadership Team who work with the Project Implementation Committee and the Expert Advisory Panel to ensure the research and model development is embedded with a consideration of lived experience.
The LELT is made up of individuals with personal lived experience and lived experience as carers and/or family and is at the heart of this project. Acting like a board of directors, they guide key project decisions and help keep the focus on the real needs and insights of those who have faced mental health challenges.
To support their involvement, they created terms of reference that outlines how the team will lead, co-design and collaborate, making sure their participation remains impactful and not purely symbolic.
Lived Experience Carer Representative
Deputy Co-Chair IAG Carer Representative ERG
Lived Experience Carer Representative
Lived Experience Consumer Representative
Co-Design Group Member
Lived Experience Consumer Representative
Lived Experience Consumer
Representative Deputy Co-Chair IAG
Lived Experience Consumer Representative
LELT Chair
Lived Experience Consumer Representative
Lived Experience Consumer Representative
LE representative ERG
Lived Experience Consumer Representative (CALD), Member Literature Review Team
Lived Experience Consumer Representative, Member Deputy co-Chair LELT, Chair IAG
National Director, Equally Well Australia
Charles Sturt University
Lived Experience Consumer Representative
LELT Chair
School of Social Work and Arts University Lead
Manna Institute
Director, Older People’s Mental Health, NSW Ministry of Health
School of Population Health, Curtin University
Co-Chair, Equally Well Alliance
The University of Queensland
Charles Sturt University, Rural Health Research Institute, Rural service delivery
Rural models of care, Drug and Alcohol
University of Tasmania
Past National Mental Health Commissioner, Rural
Chair Rural Training RANZCP
Rural Psychiatrist
The University of Newcastle
Western Sydney University
University of Technology Sydney
Co-Chair, Equally Well Alliance
University of New South Wales
University of Technology Sydney
Lived Experience Australia
Consumer & Carer Expert, Flinders University
Wiradjuri, Deputy Rural Health Commissioner
Pharmacist, Aboriginal mental health training and rural workforce program
Director of QLD Mental Health
Equally Well Co-Chair
Director of Older Persons Mental Health, NSW Health, MOC development
Consumer Co-Chair and Ambassador for Equally Well Lived Experience Expert
Lived Experience Researcher
Co-design and Co-Production expert
International thought leader, 20,000+ citations
Lancet Commission lead on physical health and mental illness
International research profile. Physical Activity and mental health.
International research profile
NHMRC clinical trials
Early Career Researcher
Community efficacy trials in rural service contexts
Diversity and First Nations Specialist
Lived Experience, Atherton Tablelands
Lived Experience Expert
National Profile
Rural Expert
Past National Mental Health Commissioner, Rural
Chair Rural Training RANZCP
Rural Psychiatrist, Smoking Cessation
Equally Well Ambassador
CALD researcher
Lived Experience Research and Project Assistant
Project Officer, Stage 1, Literature Review
Principle Research Fellow, Stage 2b, Consumer and Carer Perspectives