• Operating in maintenance mode.

Our Work

Our Research

We know something about what works for people known to be at risk, but the majority of people who die by suicide were not identified as at risk before death, and did not make it in to see a mental health professional. We have to start thinking about this other 60%. While healthcare settings are important, we also need efforts to reach the majority of suicidal people where they are - in the community, on social media, in schools, workplaces, all settings that we have not been able to fully engage and permeate. We know what works but unfortunately, currently most people who are suicidal will never receive an evidence-based practice.  These are the challenges our center is working to address. 

Active Research Grants

Collaborative to understand impacts of early preventive interventions on suicide and overdose mortality using data harmonization methodologyFamilies left behind: Addressing prolonged grief and substance use disorders among people bereaved by drug overdose deaths
Preventing Suicidal Behavior with Diverse High-Risk Youth in Acute Care SettingsBright Horizons: Designing and Evaluating a Brief Intervention to Address Alcohol, Opioid, and other Substance Use among At-Risk Apaches
Harmonizing Multiple Data Sources And Psychological Autopsy To Characterize Suicides Among Opioid-Related DeathsDeveloping and evaluating an extreme risk protection order implementation protocol with impacted communities
NATIVE RISE-Risk Identification for Suicide and Enhanced care for Native AmericansJohns Hopkins Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Elevating Indigenous Wellbeing through Assets-Based Prevention Science (ELEVATE) Training ProgramAdvancing Maryland's Statewide Suicide Data Warehouse to Improve Individual and Population-level Mortality Prediction and Prevention
Family Spirit Strengths: A home visiting strategy to support parents and caregivers with mental distress and substance misuseThe Elders' Resilience Curriculum: Toward Building Empirical Evidence for a Culturally Grounded American Indian Youth Suicide Prevention Intervention
Research CorePilot Project Core
Uncovering proximal antecedents to Black male suicide using real-time approachesHealth Care Access, Quality, and Outcomes among Individuals with Dementia in Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans
Improving screening and follow-up for suicidal ideation and behaviors among Latinx youth in primary careEstimating Mental Health Expenditures Using National Household Survey Data

 

Our Awards

2022 ICTR Team Science Award

The Team Science Award aims to both recognize the great work Johns Hopkins researchers have been doing as multidisciplinary teams and to highlight best practices and share lessons learned in Team Science.

2016-2024 Excellence in Teaching Award

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has a long tradition and a firm commitment to instruction of the highest quality. Excellence in teaching stimulates intellectual curiosity in students and prepares them to address the most challenging public health problems facing the world today. Each term, students recognize through their course evaluations the faculty who have contributed significantly to the intellectual life of the School through their excellence in teaching. The Suicide as a Public Health Problem course has received the Excellence in Teaching award for Outstanding Overall Course and Overall Instructor Ratings. 

Related Courses

Suicide As a Public Health Problem

330.674
(Course description)
 

Methods in Implementation Science

330.650.81
(Course description)

Mental Health in American Indian Communities

221.673
(Course description) 

Population Health Informatics

309.631.81
(Course description) 

Population Health: Analytic Methods and Visualization Techniques

309.635.81 
(Course Description)

Indigenous Health

224.605.81 (online) & 224.605.01 (on-campus)
(Course Description)

Health Care Economics for Management and Practice

NR.110.619 (8101)

Qualitative Reasoning in Public Health

550.604.01 (on-campus) & 550.604.81 (online)
(Course description)

Formulating Policy: Strategies and Systems of Policymaking in the 21st Century

300.712.81
(Course Description)

Catalyzing Change Part 2: Health Policy Leadership

308.722.41
(Course Description)

Learn More About our Work on our Blog

Care of Cascade (COC) for Suicide Prevention

A study from the Johns Hopkins Center for Suicide Prevention introduces a public health-oriented Cascade of Care (COC) model for suicide prevention, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 

Research Blog

CAP Laws to Reduce Youth Firearm Deaths and Suicides

A new study from the Johns Hopkins Center for Suicide Prevention highlights the critical role of Child Access Prevention (CAP) laws in reducing youth firearm suicides and other firearm-related deaths. 

Research Blog

SUDs Linked to Over Fivefold Increased Risk of Suicide Mortality

A comprehensive meta-analysis conducted by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Suicide Prevention reveals that substance use disorders (SUDs) are strongly associated with suicide mortality, increasing the risk by 5.58 times compared to non-users.

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