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Biography

Biography

Dr Faraz Mughal MBChB, DCH, MPhil, FRCGP holds a prestigious National Institute for Health and Care Research Doctoral Fellowship. He has to date been awarded three consecutive NIHR Fellowships; he previously held NIHR In-Practice and NIHR School for Primary Care Research Career Progression Fellowships. He is a practising NHS General Practitioner and is an elected Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners.    

He has won several national prizes including the RCGP Great Expectations Bursary, RCGP GP Speciality Trainee, SAPC North Early Career Prize, RCGP Annual Conference Poster Award in Adolescent Health, and a NIHR SPCR Evidence Synthesis Working Group Training Bursary Award.  

He was a member of the 2022 NICE self-harm guideline committee. He was a working group member for the ICHOM 2020 Standard Set for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, and PTSD in Children and Young People. He is an expert advisor to the UKRI Emerging Minds network and is a member of the European General Practice Research Network. He co-chairs the IASP suicide prevention in primary care special interest group. He chairs the DMEC for the NIHR ASsuRED programme.   

He co-leads the NIHR School for Public Health Research PHRESH consortium public mental health theme and is an affiliate of the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration. He is an NIHR Academy and NIHR Incubator for Mental Health Research Case Study. He is an appointed NIHR Academy Forum member. He has a growing international reputation for suicide prevention and young people’s mental health in primary care. He is an expert advisor to the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England.  

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