Data for Health in Africa Meeting
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5th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting
23 - 29 August 2025
CEDI Centre, University of Ghana, Accra

Ms Grace Gatera - Participant

Wellcome Trust (Lived Experience Consultant)

Grace Gatera is a lived experience mental health advocate, living in Kigali, Rwanda. She has been a Wellcome Lived Experience Consultant for 5 years, and during that time, also served as a member of Wellcome's mental health strategic advisory board. Elsewhere, Grace is a commissioner with the Lancet Commissions on Lived experience, as well as on GBV and the Maltreatment of Young People. Grace is on the Olympic refuge foundation thinktank and is also a member of My Mind Our Humanity, a campaign for the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development. Grace is passionate about lived experience's key role to creating a more knowledgeable and equitable mental health science worldwide.