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Sharon Lawn

Executive Director, Lived Experience Australia
Panellists have generously contributed to our CPD webinars. Please note that they are not employed by MHPN, and we are unable to contact them or provide referrals on your behalf. Please do not send us patient details.

Sharon is Executive Director of Lived Experience Australia, a nationally awarded mental health Lived Experience organisation bringing personal and family carer perspectives to systemic advocacy. Sharon brings her personal lived experience and 20+ years as a family carer to several national representative roles, including the Board of Mental Health Australia. Sharon is a Professor at Flinders University, previously Director of the Department of Psychiatry research unit, and lead SA Mental Health Commissioner in 2020–21.

Prior to these roles, Sharon worked in mental health, aged care and disability services in SA for 23 years. Sharon continues to undertake a broad range of mental health research and advocacy from a lived experience perspective. She is particularly passionate about addressing co-occurring physical health and mental health, stigma and coercion in care, and exploring the person’s and their family’s experiences of seeking and receiving support.

 

 

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