This website has some information about my work, publications and background experience. Please also refer to my main University of Oxford webpage.
Please click on the links below to find out about my main research and clinical interests which include:
1. Understanding the mental health needs of children and young people and improving services.
I work with an incredible team who conduct the OxWell Student Survey of mental health and well-being. We are incredibly grateful to the many thousands of students who have participated over the last five waves, most recently in 2025 with the next collection in 2027. We have collected over 130,000 responses and the findings are being used to inform and improve school and mental health provision. Our OxWell website has information about the work – both research with over 30 publications to date as well as supporting evidence-based change in schools, local authorities and health services.
There are a few OxWell videos you might find interesting from our 2025 study: school belonging findings; the data platform and online harmful exposures as well as an early findings for students video.
We have also evaluated the impact of a number of initiatives across child mental health services, including our work in schools, the findings have now been published and are listed in publications.
2. Poster for schools on low mood. Free to use and download: Schools low mood poster
3. Developing a better understanding of adolescent consent to mental health treatment: whether, when, and how adolescents can consent to their own treatment. This is an area of research I am currently working on and would welcome anyone interested in this area to contact me.
4. Training school staff to deliver a mental health toolbox. I have uploaded a video of this training developed for refugee children but of relevance for many children at school with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
5. Refugee children’s mental health needs. We have made a series of 6 podcasts on the Mental health of refugee children. Do listen! Other podcasts are listed in the publications section.
6. Implementation Science and Mental health apps. I have been involved in two projects examining different aspects of mental health Apps for young people. The EcoWeb project and the Wellcome Global Mental Health Databank.
7. Effects of Immigration Detention
8. Eating disorders: 2 BMJ articles for families and clinicians on what to do in the early stages of an eating disorder.
9. My clinical work is in Children’s Psychological Medicine at the Oxford Psychological Medicine Centre at the Children’s Hospital
Please email me with any questions you might have.
Mina Fazel 