Alex Sheehan, MSc, MHA, eMBA, MA, MPA

Alex Sheehan is a lived experience mental health advocate and behavioral health care program manager who oversees a portfolio of statewide programs, initiatives, and contracts focused on improving access to mental and behavioral health care treatment and recovery supports. His research examines the influence of lived experience with mental illness on state-level mental and behavioral health policy innovation and sustainability.

He has served in leadership, advocacy, and governance roles in mental health at local, state, national, and global levels. His current service includes roles as a Lived Experience Council Member of One Mind and the Healthy Brains Global Initiative, Health Policy Research Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Elinor Ostrom Fellow at the Mercatus Center of George Mason University, and Chair-Elect of the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association.

In August 2024, Alex co-founded the Global Network of Health Equity Doctoral Scholars, which supports doctoral and postdoctoral scholars advancing health equity through academic scholarship, professional experience, and lived expertise. His work emphasizes equity, dignity, and the meaningful inclusion of people with lived and living experience in the research-to-policy process.