René Keet is a practicing psychiatrist, he is board adviser internationalization at the community mental health service GGZ-Noord-Holland-Noord, in The Netherlands. He build the FIT Academy (Flexible, Innovative Top-ambulatory that provides training, e-learning, service evaluation and support to international reform projects of community mental health care. He uses his own lived experience as a resource of expertise next to science and clinical practice and is still learning this.

He is chair of the European Community Mental Health Services network (EUCOMS,   https://www.eucoms.net. The aim of this network is to learn from each other’s practice in international exchange and support human rights in mental health care. It is a community of practice, based upon a shared vision of community mental health.

Community Mental Health is based upon 6 principles: human rights, public health, recovery, effectiveness and peer expertise.

He describes these principles in https://vimeo.com/256413380

He is an international expert in mental health reform projects like MENSANA in Moldova (http://trimbos.md/?lang=en) and other projects throughout Europe and beyond.  He is consultant for WHO on community based mental health in Ukraine. He is a member of the Global Leadership Advisory Group – Mental Health (GLAG-MH) https://gle.world/