Professor Claire Henderson current roles include: Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Senior Clinical Adviser, GKT School of Medicine; Joint Academic Lead for the Quality Centre, King’s Health Partners; Director of the Centre for implementation Science.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.
Her research interests include development and evaluation of interventions both at the service level and societal level, to promote empowerment among people with mental health problems with respect to involvement in care, condition self-management, and stigma reduction. She is currently Principal Investigator and co-applicant on several mental health service research and public mental health projects, investigating recovery colleges, Advance Choice Documents and Culturally Adapted Family Intervention for Black African and Caribbean service users, mental health literacy, equipping pharmacy staff in England to help people in danger of suicide and domestic violence, and stigma reduction in low and middle income countries.