Professor Louis Appleby

Biography

Louis Appleby has championed suicide prevention at the national level since 2000. He chairs the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group which provides leadership and support in ensuring successful implementation of ‘Preventing Suicide in England’, the cross-government strategy for suicide prevention published in September 2012. Louis has been researching and publishing on suicide for over 20 years and drew up the first suicide prevention strategy for England in 2002.

Louis’s other roles include:

• National Clinical Director for Health and Justice, a post which he has held since 2010
• Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester where he leads the Centre for Mental Health and Risk
• Director of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness
• Honorary consultant psychiatrist at the Manchester Mental Health Partnership
• In July 2013 he joined the Board of the Care Quality Commission
• National Director for Mental Health from 2000 to 2010