Webinar Series

The Partnerships for Life webinar series promotes learning on best practice and effective interventions in relation to the implementation of suicide prevention strategies and programmes.

Featured Speakers

This webinar was co-chaired by Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar and Professor Paul Yip.

Professor Thilini Rajapakse, Chair Professor of Psychiatry, University of Peradeniya. Topic: Lessons learnt: Suicide and self-harm in Sri Lanka.
Dr Lakmini de Silva, Research Associate at the South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya. Topic: Lessons learnt: Suicide and self-harm in Sri Lanka.
Esther Cheung, Project Coordinator of the MDW Recharge Hub Project. Topic: Migrant domestic worker (MDW) peer leaders as gatekeepers for suicide prevention.

Featured Speakers

The webinar was co-chaired by Professor Murad Khan and Professor Joseph Osafo.

Professor Kazem Malakouti, Professor of Psychiatry at Iran University for Medical Sciences. Topic: The Achievements and the Challenges of suicide prevention programs in Iran.
Dr Johnny Andoh-Arthur, Senior Lecturer of Social and Community Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Ghana. Topic: Between Patriarchy and Pragmatism: Navigating Research and Prevention of Male Suicide in Africa.

Featured Speakers

Dr Steve Platt, Emeritus Professor, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Partnerships for Life: an introduction to IASP’s flagship global initiative.

The Joint Action (JA) on Implementation of Best Practices in the Area of Mental Health -JA ImpleMENTAL.

- Dr Alexander Grabenhofer-Eggerth, Head of the Department of Psychosocial Health at the Austrian National Public Health Institute (GÖG), An Introduction to JA ImpleMENTAL.
- Faith Thompson, Trimbos Institute Netherlands, Theory of Change methodology in the evaluation of suicide prevention strategies

Dr Karen Scavacini, CEO of the Vita Alere Institute for Suicide Prevention and Postvention, Brazil, Brazil’s National Suicide Prevention Strategy: Progress and Challenges