Professor Shu-Sen Chang is a suicide prevention and mental health researcher and Professor at the College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. With a background in psychiatry and public health, he has applied tools of population health science to identify complex determinants of suicidal behaviour and evaluate interventions aimed at preventing suicide and saving lives.

Professor Chang leverages a life-course, multi-level framework and rigorous methodologies in his research to generate critical evidence to inform suicide prevention strategies. He has worked extensively with local and international researchers conducting a series of studies to investigate time trends, geographic variations, and risk factors of suicide, self-harm, and mental wellbeing as well as intervention effectiveness.