Centre for Mental Health Seminar Series Presenter: Dr. Faraz Mughal
University of Melbourne School of Population & Global Health
Thursday 13 October 2022 12.00 noon – 1.00 pm
via Zoom
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Suicide prevention is an international priority. Healthcare settings remain an important avenue for the identification, assessment, and treatment of people who have harmed themselves and who are at risk of suicide.
In more developed countries, primary care has an integral role in a cross-sector multidisciplinary approach to suicide prevention.
I will set the context of why primary care is a key setting in the prevention of suicide, share past and current research findings with a focus on young people, and outline next steps that should be taken to optimise primary care settings for suicide prevention.
Faraz is an academic GP with expertise in young people’s mental health and suicide prevention. His active research areas are self-harm and suicide prevention, ADHD, and mental health care transitions in community and primary care settings.
After becoming a GP, he was awarded three consecutive NIHR Fellowships, and is a current NIHR Doctoral Fellow.
He leads the NIHR funded ‘COPING’ study: a COproduced
Psychosocial INtervention delivered by GPs for young people who self harm.
He was a guideline committee member of the 2022 NICE self -harm guidance.
He is an expert advisor to Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England.
He co-chairs the IASP suicide prevention in primary care special interest group. He has over 60 peer-reviewed publications and is an elected
Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
These seminars are free. Visitors are welcome to attend.
For more information contact the Centre for Mental Health +61 3 8344 0908
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