Rate My Professor Saeed Farooq

Professor Saeed Farooq is NIHR Global Research Professor and Professor of Psychiatry and Public Mental Health in the School of Medicine at Keele University. He co-leads the mental health and wellbeing research theme, with a focus on specialist care and global mental health. He holds the position of Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust and serves as Academic Secretary to the West Midlands Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. His research centers on improving outcomes in severe mental illness through evidence-based interventions, enhancing physical health in individuals with severe mental illness, and advancing global mental health via public health approaches tailored for low- and lower-middle-income countries. As principal investigator, he has obtained research grants totaling approximately £10 million and currently leads initiatives on treatment adherence, optimizing therapies for severe mental illness to improve physical health, and early detection of treatment-resistant schizophrenia. Saeed Farooq has authored over 250 publications in high-impact peer-reviewed journals and contributed chapters to several books. He has pioneered translational research studies and concepts in psychiatry, including projects such as HOPE, CONTROL, TRANSLATE, and STOPS.