Contact information

Email	mina.fazel@psych.ox.ac.uk
Tel	+44 (0)1865 223733
Fax	+44 (0)1865 793101

Mina Fazel

DM MRCPsych

NIHR Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Associate Professor

I am interested in improving children and young people's access to mental health services. This is important because many children with emotional and behavioural difficulties never reach traditional mental health services, yet a substantial proportion of mental illness starts before the age of 18. Vulnerable populations access mental health services least, for example, the refugee populations I have studied describe many barriers to accessing services. It is therefore essential to find innovative ways to reach vulnerable populations of children in order to maximize their emotional, cognitive and social development at such a crucial stage in their lives.

School-based mental health interventions is the current focus of my research. I am working with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust to develop better school-based mental health services across Oxfordshire secondary schools for all children. My NIHR post-doctoral fellowship is on developing psychological interventions that any front-line worker, even if they do not have a mental health background, can utilize in the school setting for refugee and asylum seeking children.

Our Lancet Psychiatry series on school mental health interventions are freely available online and can be found here: http://www.thelancet.com/series/mental-health-interventions-schools

Refugee mental health needs have been a longstanding interest. I have conducted work on the epidemiology of and the risk and protective factors for mental health problems in refugee children, I am concerned about the psychological impacts of immigration detention and have an active interest in Narrative Exposure Therapy for PTSD.

My clinical work is as an honorary child and adolescent psychiatrist in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Children's Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals.

Links to publications can be found here or via ResearchGate

Differential effect of intrauterine growth restriction on childhood neurodevelopment: a systematic review.
Murray E. et al, (2015), BJOG, 122, 1062 - 1072
Childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Verkuijl N. et al, (2015), BMJ, 350
Differential effect of intrauterine growth restriction on childhood neurodevelopment: A systematic review
Murray E. et al, (2015), BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 122, 1062 - 1072
Inadequate mental healthcare in immigration removal centres.
Grant-Peterkin H. et al, (2014), BMJ, 349
Mental health interventions in schools in high-income countries
Fazel MS. et al, (2014), Lancet Psychiatry, 1, 377 - 387
Mental health interventions in schools in low-income and middle-income countries.
Fazel M. et al, (2014), Lancet Psychiatry, 1, 388 - 398
Detention, denial, and death: migration hazards for refugee children.
Fazel M. et al, (2014), Lancet Glob Health, 2, e313 - e314
School and Community-Based Interventions for Refugee and Asylum Seeking Children: A Systematic Review
Tyrer RA. and Fazel M., (2014), PLoS ONE, 9, e89359 - e89359
Prevalence of child mental health problems in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.
Cortina MA. et al, (2012), Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 166, 276 - 281
Mental health of displaced and refugee children resettled in low-income and middle-income countries: Risk and protective factors
Reed RV. et al, (2012), The Lancet, 379, 250 - 265
Mental health of displaced and refugee children resettled in high-income countries: risk and protective factors.
Fazel M. et al, (2012), Lancet, 379, 266 - 282
Safeguarding the mental health needs of separated children
Reed RV. and Fazel M., (2012), Safeguarding Children from Abroad: Refugee, Trafficked and Migrant Children in the UK, 100 - 118
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Reed RV. et al, (2012), BMJ, 344
The emerging evidence for Narrative Exposure Therapy: a review
Robjant K. and Fazel M., (2010), Clinical Psychology Review, 30, 1030 - 1039
Mental health needs of migrants in the South East region
Fazel MS. and Health Protection Agency and partners None., (2010)
Alternatives to inpatient mental health care for children and young people.
Shepperd S. et al, (2009), Cochrane Database Syst Rev
A school-based mental health intervention for refugee children: An exploratory study.
Fazel M. et al, (2009), Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 14, 297 - 309
School-based interventions can play a critical role in enhancing children's development and health in the developing world.
Cortina M. et al, (2008), Child: Care Health and Development, 34, 1 - 3
The impact of recurrent abdominal pain: predictors of outcome in a large population cohort.
Ramchandani PG. et al, (2007), Acta Paediatr, 96, 697 - 701
Detention of refugees
Fazel M None. and Silove D None., (2006), BMJ, 332, 251 - 252
Prevalence of serious mental disorder in 7000 refugees resettled in western countries: a systematic review
Fazel M None. et al, (2005), Lancet, 365, 1309 - 1314
UK immigration law disregards the best interests of children.
Fazel M. and Stein A., (2004), Lancet, 363, 1749 - 1750
Mental health of refugee children: comparative study.
Fazel M. and Stein A., (2003), BMJ, 327
The mental health of refugee children.
Fazel M. and Stein A., (2002), Archives of Disease in Childhood, 87, 366 - 370
Medical implications of controlled fasting
Fazel M., (1998), J.R.Soc.Med., 91, 260 - 263
Now show me your tongue: a taste of medicine in China
Fazel M., (1995), Lancet, 346, 1687 - 1688

Key Publications

Mental health interventions in schools in high-income countries
Fazel MS. et al, (2014), Lancet Psychiatry, 1, 377 - 387
Mental health interventions in schools in low-income and middle-income countries.
Fazel M. et al, (2014), Lancet Psychiatry, 1, 388 - 398
Mental health of displaced and refugee children resettled in high-income countries: risk and protective factors.
Fazel M. et al, (2012), Lancet, 379, 266 - 282
School and Community-Based Interventions for Refugee and Asylum Seeking Children: A Systematic Review
Tyrer RA. and Fazel M., (2014), PLoS ONE, 9, e89359 - e89359
Childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Verkuijl N. et al, (2015), BMJ, 350

Recent Publications

Differential effect of intrauterine growth restriction on childhood neurodevelopment: a systematic review.
Murray E. et al, (2015), BJOG, 122, 1062 - 1072
Childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Verkuijl N. et al, (2015), BMJ, 350
Differential effect of intrauterine growth restriction on childhood neurodevelopment: A systematic review
Murray E. et al, (2015), BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 122, 1062 - 1072
Inadequate mental healthcare in immigration removal centres.
Grant-Peterkin H. et al, (2014), BMJ, 349
Mental health interventions in schools in high-income countries
Fazel MS. et al, (2014), Lancet Psychiatry, 1, 377 - 387

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