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Addressing the social determinants of suicide through a public health approach Febuary 18, 2025 3:00 PM EST

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Jane Pirkis, Division of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne

Professor Jane Pirkis is the Director of the Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. She has a background in psychology and epidemiology and has worked in the field of suicide prevention for nearly 30 years. Much of her research has been on the way in which people’s circumstances and environments confer risk for suicide. Jane is the Editor-in-Chief of Crisis and a past Vice President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP). Her achievements have been recognized by various awards, including IASP’s Erwin Stengel Research Award.

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The social determinants of mental health and disorder: evidence, prevention and recommendations January 14, 2025 12:00 PM EST

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James Kirkbride, Division of Psychiatry, University College London

James B. Kirkbride is a Professor of Psychiatric and Social Epidemiology in the Division of Psychiatry, UCL, where he directs the PsyLife research group (www.psylife.eu) to investigate the social determinants of severe mental illnesses. His research focuses on the social determinants of psychosis at multiple levels of causation. In particular, he investigates why several migrant and minoritized ethnic groups experience elevated rates of psychosis and why rates are elevated in more adverse urban environments. He addresses these inequalities by applying epidemiological techniques to various datasets, including large epidemiological studies of first-episode psychosis and longitudinal cohort data. He currently co-leads a major national initiative in the UK to implement a psychosis registry and clinical decision support system in NHS Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) services, called EPICare. 

Professor Kirkbride is a previous recipient of the APPA Robins-Guze prize (2013) and has held several prestigious grants and fellowships from the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, and UKRI. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2007.

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