Keith Hawton is a Consultant Psychiatrist with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and Professor of Psychiatry at Oxford University. He has worked in the field of research into suicide and deliberate self-harm for more than 35 years, resulting in over 500 publications. He has written and edited several books, including The International Handbook of Suicide and Attempted Suicide, Prevention and Treatment of Suicidal Behaviour: From Science to Practice, and By Their Own Young Hand: Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideas in Adolescents. He is an National Institute for Health Research Senior Investigator.