In response to widespread concerns about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide and suicidal behaviour an international group of suicide prevention researchers from around 40 countries have formed the International COVID-19 suicide prevention research collaboration (ICSPRC) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30171-1/fulltext.
Our aim is to enhance good quality collaborative research on the prevention and management of suicide and suicidal behaviours in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to maximise the societal impact of research the ICSPRC is working in partnership and collaboration with the International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP).
Our initiatives include:
- A COVID-19 suicide research study register. We encourage all researchers working on COVID-19 related studies of suicide and suicidal behaviour to share detail here to facilitate collaboration
- An editorial in Crisis summarising research considerations in relation to COVID-19
- A series of webinars on COVID-19 related research
- Advice on questions / survey tools relevant to suicide prevention research in relation to COVID-19
- A letter to academic journal editors with guidance on responsible publishing of research on Covid-19 and suicide, published in the British Medical Journal on 8 February 2021 https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n351.
Please also see and share this short video summarising this guidance:
For more information please contact us.
Countries represented in the collaboration:
Australia; Austria; Bangladesh; Belgium; Brazil; Canada; China; Czech Republic, Denmark; Ecuador; England; Finland; France; Ghana; Germany; Hong Kong; India; Iran; Ireland; Israel; Japan; Kenya; Malaysia; Mexico; Netherlands; New Zealand; Nigeria; Northern Ireland; Norway; Pakistan; Peru; Poland; Russia; Scotland; Slovenia; South Africa; Spain; Sri Lanka; Sweden; Taiwan; Wales; Uganda; USA
Steering Group
| Title | First Name | Surname | Address |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mgs | Pablo | Analuisa | Ministerio de Salud Pública, Ecuador |
| Prof | Louis | Appleby | Centre for Suicide Prevention, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
| Prof | Ella | Arensman | School of Public Health and National Suicide Research Foundation, College of Medicine and Health, University College Cork, Cork, Republic of Ireland |
| Prof | Jason | Bantjes | Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa |
| Prof | David | Gunnell | Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, 39 Whatley Road, Bristol, BS8 2PS, UK |
| Prof | Keith | Hawton | Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Centre for Suicide Research, University of Oxford, Oxford UK |
| Prof | Ann | John | Population Psychiatry, Suicide and Informatics, Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, UK |
| Prof | Nav | Kapur | Division of Psychology & Mental Health, Centre for Mental Health and Safety, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
| Prof | Murad | Khan | Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi, Pakistan |
| Dr | Olivia | Kirtley | Center for Contextual Psychiatry, KU Leuven, Department of Neuroscience, Campus Sint-Rafael, Kapucijnenvoer 33, Bus 7001 (Blok H), 3000, Leuven, Belgium. |
| Dr | Duleeka | Knipe | Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, 39 Whatley Road, Bristol, BS8 2PS, UK |
| Prof | Thomas | Niederkrotenthaler | Unit Suicide Research and Mental Health Promotion, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, A-1090 Vienna, Austria |
| Emma | Nielsen | Self-Harm Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD UK | |
| Prof | Rory | O'Connor | Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, 1055 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G12 0XH |
| Prof | Michael | Phillips | Suicide Research and Prevention Center, Shanghai Mental Health |
| Prof | Jane | Pirkis | Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Prof | Steve | Platt | Usher Institute, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh |
| Dr | Mark | Sinyor | Department of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Prof | Ellen | Townsend | Self-Harm Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD UK |
| Dr | Lakshmi | Vijayakumar | Department of Psychiatry, Voluntary Health Service, SNEHA, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Prof | Gil | Zalsman | Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| Prof | Rakhi | Dandona | Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India |
