Charity Muturi is a global lived experience health advocacy & policy champion from the lens of her lived experience with a mental health condition and caring for parents with 8 Non-Communicable Diseases. She has represented the NCD Alliance Global Advisory Committee at the UN General Assembly, WHO, World Bank, World Health Summit, Global United for Mental Health, African Union & Africa CDC. Charity has promoted mental health as a top 5 NCD globally joining diabetes, hypertension,  cancer & chronic respiratory diseases.

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Charity's advocacy priority has been enabling sustainable patient inclusion in health policy and service delivery with the motto "Nothing For Us Without Us!" on which she co-authored in a UN Compendium http://bitly.ws/AfyC & participated in the WHO Publication and Framework on the Meaningful Engagement of People Living with NCDs and Mental Health Conditions and the NCD Alliance Global Charter of People Living with NCDs http://bitly.ws/AeJ5. She has influenced patient inclusion in 8 Kenya national health policy committees & led patients in delivering 10 Parliament & Senate Policy Submissions. 

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Ms. Muturi served in the Kenya National Task Force on Mental Health, is currently a Court Co-Petitioner to Decriminalise Suicide Attempt with the Kenya National Commision on Human Rights & Kenya Psychiatric Association. She also serves with the WHO & Ministry of Health Quality Rights for Mental Health training team. She is passionate abput the criminal justice system and has avidly sensitised 50 prison and probation stations on mental health through partnering with the Kenya Prisons Service; and Kenya Probation & Aftercare Service. ​

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In Kenya and Africa, mental health conditions are presumed to be demons or witchcraft and many patients are taken to psychiatric hospitals when very severe, after 10-30 years of failed spiritual and traditional interventions. In her role as a Bishop's daughter, Charity has sensitised Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Atheist congregations on healthy approaches on spirituality and mental health including how to prevent, identify, intervene and refer mental health challenges.

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BOARDS & COMMITTEES:

NCD Alliance Global UHC & NCD Policy Committees

Ministry of Health NCD Covid Sub-Committee

University College London Research Committee - Postnatal Depression

Kenya Special Needs Prisoners & Nairobi Prisons Wellness Committees

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Charity is the Chairperson of Tunawiri focusing on:

NCDs, Mental Health & Neurological Conditions Advocacy & Policy

Empowering peer support groups for patients & family caregivers

Mental health, social & economic empowerment for 2,000+ prisoners & staff

Mental health sensitisation to 5,000+ in Christian, Muslim & Hindu audiences

Training of 150 journalists on mental health reporting in Kenya & Nigeria

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