Seena Fazel is a Professor of Forensic Psychiatry and Director of the Centre for Suicide Research at the University of Oxford.

His main research interests are risk assessment in criminal justice and mental health, and the prevention of suicide, violence and other adverse outcomes in people with mental illness. He holds honorary appointments at Oxford Health Foundation NHS Trust, where he works clinically as a prison psychiatrist. Seena is an expert member of the UK government’s Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody.