Professor Andrew Forrester - Mental Health and Vulnerability in the Criminal Justice System

On Monday 25 April 2022 we held an online conference to celebrate 10 Year's of the National Speaker Programme.
Speakers at the conference are all leading figures in their respective areas of research.

Andrew is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Cardiff University, and a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist with Swansea Bay University Health Board and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.

He has worked as a psychiatrist in prisons and other criminal justice settings for over 20 years, and written over 800 reports to the Courts. His clinical and research interests relate to mental health conditions as they present in the criminal justice system, including prisons, courts, police custody, probation, and other places of detention, with a focus on vulnerability and marginalisation. He is forensic lead at the National Centre for Mental Health, Director of the Offender Health Research Network Cymru, Academic Secretary to the Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists, and Editor in Chief of the SAGE journal Medicine, Science and the Law. He also chairs the World Psychiatric Association's prison mental health task-force.