Trustees

Chris Bumstead

Chairperson

Chris trained as an Occupational Therapist from 1976-79 and since then has been specialising in mental health and substance use.

From 1979-1984, he worked in a clinical capacity as an Occupational Therapist in Canada in in-patient and day-patient mental health services, before moving back to the United Kingdom to establish a new model of day care centre in London, which he managed until 1992.

He has senior operational manager experience as Director of Occupational Therapy at Springfield Hospital (1992 – 2000), and as Borough Director (London – Hounslow 2000 – 2002, and Kensington & Chelsea 2002 – 2006). He was the first Head of Patient & Public Involvement (2006 – 2015) at Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust with a strategic management role to augment the input of patients and carers into service and quality development.

In 2011, he became involved in international development work in Tanzania and is currently Coordinator of the International Healthcare Partnerships Programme at
Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust (2015 – present). In this role he has successfully managed a number of grant-funded projects at Mirembe National
Mental Health Hospital, and has set up new partnerships in The Gambia and Zimbabwe.

Chris has always had a special interest in user empowerment and patient rights and in 1996 completed a MSc in Health & Social Care Policy with a thesis on Comparative Mental Health Patient Rights in 3 European countries

Innocent Mwombeki

General board member

From Dodoma, Tanzania, received a Doctor of Medicine degree in 2009 from Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam. After finishing his internship, he began working as a medical officer for the Mirembe Mental Health Referral Hospital in Dodoma.

In 2014, he was appointed the head of addiction services there after completing a Master of Medicine degree in psychiatry and mental health from Muhimbili University. In 2020 he earned a master’s degree in public health from Hebrew University in Israel.

Currently, Dr. Mwombeki is the head of training and research at Mirembe Hospital. Over the years, he has been actively involved in developing national treatment guidelines and the facilitation of training programs for mental health and substance use disorders. He works in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, universities, and various NGOs in Tanzania.