Louis Appleby
Professor
Psychiatry
University of Manchester
United Kingdom
Biography
Louis Appleby graduated in medicine in Edinburgh and subsequently trained in hospital medicine and psychiatry, the latter at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. He has an MD from Edinburgh and is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of both Physicians and Psychiatrists. He has held research grants totalling £15.5m from the Wellcome Trust, MRC, Department of Health and other NHS sources. Louis leads the Centre for Mental Health and Safety, investigating suicide and self-harm, violence and forensic services, the largest research unit in this field internationally. Its findings have been the basis of Government policy on suicide prevention and are widely quoted by governments, professionals and charities. From 2000-2010 Louis was seconded (part-time) as the Government's National Director for Mental Health to lead a national programme of reform in mental health care in England and from 2010-2014 he was National Clinical Director for Health and Criminal Justice.
Research Interest
Suicide and self-harm, homicide and forensic services, parental mental health and its impact on children.
Publications
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Suicide by mental health in-patients under observation
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Self-harm and violent criminality among young people who experienced trauma-related hospital admission during childhood: A Danish national cohort study
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New Policy and Evidence on Suicide Prevention: Suicide prevention
