Professor Rohan Borschmann is a Senior Research Associate within the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and a Visiting Academic in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, UK. He completed his PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London, leading an RCT of crisis plans to reduce self-harming behaviours in adults with borderline personality disorder.

A former prison psychologist and probation officer, Rohan’s program of research focuses on the mental health of adolescents and adults who come into contact with the criminal justice system in Australia and internationally, with a particular emphasis on self-harm and suicide prevention. He is the Deputy Head of the Justice Health Group in Australia, a multi-institutional research team led by Prof. Stuart Kinner at Curtin University. The Justice Health Group generates world-class evidence regarding the health and health service experiences of justice-involved people, and advocates for evidence-informed policies to improve their health and wellbeing.

Rohan co-authored the health chapter of the United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, which highlighted the widespread detention of children worldwide in contexts including criminal justice systems, immigration, armed conflict, and institutional settings, and its severe, lasting harm on their health and development. He also leads the multi-national Mortality After Release from Incarceration Consortium (MARIC), a consortium of >70 academics, clinicians, and advocates from 14 countries working together to examine and prevent early mortality among people released from prisons and jails internationally (see here).