Grace Gatera and Shuranjeet Singh reflect on the benefits of lived experience involvement in mental health science.
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Both authors S.S. and G.G. are paid lived experience consultants working for the Wellcome Trust.
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Gatera, G., Singh, S. Beyond tokenism: the influence of lived experience and its future possibilities in mental health science. Nat. Mental Health 1, 151–152 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-023-00027-x
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