Faraz Mughal

Biography

Dr Faraz Mughal MBChB, DCH, MPhil, FRCGP, is an academic General Practitioner (GP). He has been awarded three consecutive National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Fellowships. He has held NIHR In-Practice and NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) Career Progression Fellowships, and more recently, the prestigious Doctoral Fellowship (300957). He is a practising NHS GP and an elected Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).

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 was an advisor to the UKRI Emerging Minds network and is a member of the European General Practice Research Network. He co-chaired the IASP suicide prevention in primary care special interest group 2021-25. 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.  

Research and scholarship

Faraz’s main research interests are in the prevention and management of self-harm, suicide, young people’s mental health, and common mental health problems in primary care. He is Chief Investigator of the NIHR-funded COPING study: a complex GP-led intervention for young people with past self-harm. His research has been funded from NIHR, NIHR SPCR, and the RCGP Scientific Foundation Board. 

He has over 110 peer-reviewed and scientific publications:

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He has presented his work at national and international clinical, academic, and public conferences. He collaborates widely to improve the mental health and wellbeing of patients and the public.   

Teaching

Faraz is a trained facilitator in communications skills and case-based learning. He has been funded by Health Education West Midlands to deliver an academic seminar series for clinical GP trainees. He has lectured at Leicester Medical School, organised RCGP national mental health courses, authored educational RCGP articles, and taught GPs on youth mental health. He regularly supports and mentors interested researchers.  

Further information

Faraz has interviewed for the Guardian, The Times, and BBC on primary care mental health. He is a member of the Society for Academic Primary Care Mental Health Special Interest Group and NICE GP Reference Panel. He is Honorary Secretary of the RCGP Adolescent Health Group and a visiting academic GP, Department for General Practice and Primary Care, University of Melbourne.

Twitter @farazhmughal