Special mention to Camilla Wasserman - PhD in Medicine and Health Sciences and MA in Anthropology. Co-editor of the first edition, and current editor of the chapters on Religion, Art, Film, Media and Suicide.
Susan Ahern, BComm, MSc (Health Economics), Research Health Economist, School of Public Health, University College Cork, Ireland
Karl Andriessen, PhD, MA Suicidology, Centre for Mental Health, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Kiminori Arai, Priest of Chichibu Sinto Shrine, Chichibu, Japan
Ella Arensman, MSc, PhD, Director of Research, National Suicide Research Foundation, Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College Cork, Ireland; Former President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention; Vice-President of the European Alliance Against Depression
Alan Apter, MD, Director of the Feinberg Child Study Centre, Scheider Children's Medical Centre of Israel, Ruppin Academic Centre Interdisciplinary Centre, Herzliya, Israel
Judit Balazs, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Developmental and Clinical Child Psychology, Institute of Psychology Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary; Part-time Professor of Bjørknes University College, Oslo, Norway.
Gaspar Baquedano, MD, PhD, Psychiatrist, Philosopher and Anthropologist; Vice President of the Mexican Federation of Mental Health Societies; Director of ECO, School of Consciousness for Suicide Prevention, Merida, Mexico; Former director of the Psychiatric Hospital, Yucatan, Mexico; Former coordinator of the University Program for the Study of Suicide, Faculty of Anthropology, Yucatan University, Mexico.
Jose M Bertolote, MD, MSc, PhD, Voluntary Professor of Psychiatry, Botucatu Medical School, UNESP, Brazil; Coordinator of the Botucatu Community Life Protection Network; Member of the International Association for Suicide Prevention ; Former Coordinator of the WHO Global Suicide Prevention Programme
Emma Björkenstam, Assistant Professor, Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet; Department of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Sweden; Department of Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health and California Centre for Population Research, University of California Los Angeles, California, USA
Hilario Blasco Fontecilla, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist; Associate Professor Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain; Head of the Translational Research Mental Health Group at the Puerta de Hierro University Hospital - IDIPHIPSA, Majadahonda (Madrid), Spain; ITA Salud Mental, Madrid, Spain
David Brent, MD, Academic Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Epidemiology, Endowed Chair in Suicide Studies; Director, Services for Teens at Risk, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and The University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Thomas Bronisch, Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in Private Practice, Consultant Psychiatrist at the Forensic Psychiatric Service, University of Bern, Switzerland, Scientific Consultant at the Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
Dinesh Bhugra, CBE, MA, MSc, MBBS, PhD, FRCP, FRCPE, FRCPsych, FFPHM, FRCPsych(Hon), FHKCPsych(Hon), FACPsych(Hon), FAMS(Singapore), FKCL, MPhil, FAcadME, FRSA, DIFAPA, Emeritus Professor of Mental Health & Cultural Diversity, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), Kings College, London, UK.
Jed Boardman, PhD, FRCPsych, Senior Lecturer in Social Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), Kings College London, London, UK
Beth S Brodsky, Associate Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Centre, New York City, New York, USA
Romuald Brunner, MD, Chair and Medical Director of the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg, Germany; former Deputy Clinical Director of the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Associate Professor, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Cendrine Bursztein, PhD, Clinical psychologist and Lecturer in the Educational Psychology program at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Israel
Gerard Camy, PhD in Contemporary History and History of Art; Director of Public and Professional High School for Audiovisual Media in Cannes from 1999 to 2014, France; President of the Association “Cannes Cinema”; Historian of Cinema; Journalist at the Weekly Magazine “Telerama” from 1994 to 2004; Author of several influential books about cinema
Silvia Sara Canetto, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, the Women's Studies Program, and the International Studies Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Vladimir Carli, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental-Ill Health (NASP) at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Co-director, World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre on Research, Training and Methods Development in Suicide Prevention
Julie Cerel, PhD, Licensed Psychologist, Director at Suicide Prevention and Exposure Lab (SPEL); University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA; Professor in the College of Social Work; Past-Present of American Association of Suicidology
Pavla Cermáková, MD, PhD, Senior Researcher, National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic; Assistant Professor, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic.
Ying-Yeh Chen, Professor of National Yang-Ming University; Chair of Community Mental Health, Taipei City Psychiatric Centre, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan; National Representative of the International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP)
Megan Chesin, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey, USA
Philippe Courtet, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Emergency Psychiatry and Acute Care, CHU Montpellier, INSERM, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Shayna Creek, MA, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Dianne Currier, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Diego De Leo, MD, PhD, DSc, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Griffith University, Australia
Jose de Leon, University of Kentucky Mental Health Research Centre at Eastern State Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Geert Dom, Professor of Addiction Psychiatry, Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI), Antwerp University (UA), Wilrijk, Belgium
Brian Draper, MBBS, MD, Professor (Conjoint), School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Tony Durkee, PhD, Research Coordinator, Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Øivind Ekeberg, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Research and Development, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Natalia Erazo, Doctoral Degree in Human Biology, Diploma Degree in Psychology, Practice for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Eching, Germany
Annette Erlangsen, Senior Researcher, Danish Research Institute for Suicide Prevention, Copenhagen, Denmark
Christianne Esposito-Smythers, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, Director of Clinical Training, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Wu Fei, PhD, Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University, China
Alexandra Fleischmann, PhD, Social Cognition Centre Cologne, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany
Robert Gebbia, Chief Executive Officer, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, New York City, New York, USA
Madelyn S Gould, PhD, MPH, Irving Philips Professor of Epidemiology (in Psychiatry), Division of Child Psychiatry and Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Medical Centre, New York City, New York, USA
Mark J Goldblatt, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry (PT), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Faculty Member, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Clinical Associate, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA; Member, Boston Suicide Study Group
Onja T. Grad, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychology; Senior Consultant, Slovenian Association for Suicide Prevention, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Carla Gramaglia, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Institute, Department of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale; Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Maggiore della Carità, Novara, Italy
Ilana Gratch, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student, Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA
David Gunnell, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, UK
Yingqi Guo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Gergö Hadlaczky, Lecturer, Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Head of Department for Centre for Health Economics, Informatics and Health Services Research at Stockholm County Healthcare Services, Stockholm, Sweden; Head of the Regional Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention (NASP) at Stockholm County Healthcare Services, Stockholm, Sweden
Emily Halford, MPH, Candidate Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health New York, New York City, USA
Herbert Hendin† - MD, formerly Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, New York Medical College; Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director Suicide Prevention International, New York City, New York, USA
Josephine G Hendin, PhD, Professor of English, Department of English, New York University, New York City, New York, USA
Ulrich Hegerl, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, President, European Alliance Against Depression (EAAD), Research Centre of the German Depression Foundation, Frankfurt, Germany
Ines Heinz, Psychologist, Project Coordinator, German Alliance Against Depression (EAAD), Leipzig, Germany
Cyril Hoschl, MUDr, DRsC, FRCPsych, Professor; Director, National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany; Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Juliane Hug, Psychologist, Project Coordinator, European Alliance Against Depression (EAAD), Leipzig, Germany
Jennifer Hughes, PhD, MPH, Psychologist, UT Southwestern Centre for Depression Research and Clinical Care; Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Centre, Dallas, Texas, USA
Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Miriam Iosue - Research Assistant, affiliated to the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP) at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Maya Iohan-Barak, PhD, Clinical Psychologist-Supervisor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Schneider Children's Medical Centre of Israel, Peta Tikva, Israel
Jennifer Jones, PhD, Private Practice, New York City, New York, USA
Michael Kaess, MD, Professor, University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Jean Pierre Kahn, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry at Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France; Medical Director at Clinique Soins Etudes of the Fondation Santé des Etudiants de France (FSEF), Vitry-le-François, France; Former Chief of the Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology at Centre Hospitalier Regional et universitaire de Nancy (CHRU de Nancy); Former Chief of the French Academic Centre of Expertise for Bipolar Disorder (FACE-BD) Centre in Nancy
Raksha Kandlur, MA, Research Coordinator, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Centre, New York City, New York,USA
Stephanie Kandsperger, MD, Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Yoshihiro Kaneko, PhD, Director National Centre of Neurology and Psychiatry, National Institute of Psychiatry, Centre for mental health promotion, Tokyo, Japan
Helen Keeley, MD, MRCPsych, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Health Service Executive at North Cork Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Mallow Co Cork, Ireland; Co-Chair of the Youth and Student Special Interest Group; Past Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Deputy Director with the National Suicide Research Foundation; Past Chair of the Child and Adolescent Faculty of the Irish College of Psychiatrists
Brendan Kennelly, MSc in Economy, Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland; Visiting Professor at Department of Economics at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
Dévora Kestel, MSc in Psychology, MPH, Director of Mental Health and Substance Use at the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Karolina Krysinska, PhD, Research Fellow, Centre for Mental Health, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Amy Kulp, MS, Deputy Director at the American Association of Suicidology; Director at the National Centre for the Prevention of Youth Suicide, Washington DC, USA
Karl-Heinz Ladwig, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine and Medical Psychology, Institute of Epidemiology -Helmholtz Zentrum München German Research Centre for Environmental Health München-Neuherberg, and Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany
Alison M Lake, MA, Consulting Project Director, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York City, New York, USA
Márie Leane, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland
David Lester, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey, USA
Mira Levis Frenk, PhD in Psychology, Research Coordinator, Schneider Children's Medical Centre of Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel
Jouko Lönnqvist, MD, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Former President of the International Association of Suicide Research (IASR)
Jorge Lopez Castroman, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Montpellier, France; Department of Psychiatry, Nimes University Hospital, France
Karoline Lukaschek, PD, Dr. phil., MSc Epidemiology, M Phil, Institute of General Practice and Family Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
Trine Madsen, Senior Researcher, Danish Research Institute for Suicide Prevention, CORE - Copenhagen Research Centre for Mental Health, Copenhagen Mental Health Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tine Maes, Head Nurse, Department of Psychiatry, GZA-Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium; Doctoral Student, Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI), Antwerp University (UA), Wilrijk, Belgium
Nir Madjar, PhD, School of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel; Head of the Program of Educational Counselling, Bar-Ilan University; Member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and American Psychiatric Association (APA)
John T Maltsberger†, MD, formerly Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States; Faculty Member, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Clinical Associated McLean Hospital, Belmount, Massachusetts, United States; Boston Suicide Study Group
J John Mann, MD, Paul Janssen Professor of Translational Neuroscience in Psychiatry and Radiology, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA
David McDaid, BSc, MSc, MSc, Associate Professorial Research Fellow, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Brendan McElroy, Bcomm, MSc in Economy (UCC), PhD (Edinburgh), Lecturer, University College Cork, Ireland
Lars Mehlum, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Suicidology, Director, National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, Institute of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Norway; Editor of the Journal Suicidologi; President of the International Association of Suicide Research (IASR); Former President of the International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP) and the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD)
Björn Meyer, PhD in Clinical Psychology, Research Director, Research Department, GAIA AG, Hamburg, Germany; Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, City, University of London, United Kingdom; Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Development and Society, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
Kathrin Mikan, PhD, MSc, Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz, Professor in Insurance Medicine, PhD, Head of the Division of Insurance Medicine, Acting Head of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Alexander Mokhovikov †- MD, PhD, formerly Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Odessa National University, Odessa, Ukraine; Director of the Odessa Confidence Telephone Service (the Odessa Samaritans); President of the Ukrainian National Association of Telephone Counselors
Hans-Jurgen Möller, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Former Chairman of Psychiatry Department of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Adam Montgomery, MB, BCh, BAO, Psychiatry Core Trainee, The Maudsley Training Programme, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Christine Moutier, MD, Chief Medical Officer, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Maximilian Niebler - Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, MD, PhD, MMSc, Associate Professor, Research Group Lead, Unit Suicide Prevention & Mental Health Promotion, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Merete Nordentoft, Professor, Danish Research Institute for Suicide Prevention, CORE - Copenhagen Research Centre for Mental Health, Copenhagen Mental Health Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ahmed Okasha, Professor of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Tarek Okasha, Professor of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Lili Olga Horvath, MA, PhD Candidate of the Doctoral School of Psychology Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary; Assistant Professor of Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
Emilie Olie, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Post-Acute Care, Lapeyronie Hospital, Montpellier, France
Israel Orbach †, PhD, formerly Professor of Psychiatry, IDC Herzliya, Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Herzliya, Israel
Fiachra Ó'Súilleabháin, DSocSc, College Lecturer in Social Work and Social Policy, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland
Maria A Oquendo, MD, PhD, Ruth Meltzer Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States; American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, President-Elect; American Psychiatric Association, Past President; International Academy of Suicide Research, Immediate Past President
Emilio Ovuga, MD, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda
Elise Paul, Senior Research Associate in Behavioural and Developmental Epidemiology, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Andrea Perez-Munoz, University of Memphis, Department of Psychology, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Michael R Phillips, CM, MD, MA, MPH, Professor of Psychiatry, Shanghai Mental Health Centre, Shanghai
Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University
Somparn Promta, PhD, Professor of Buddhist Philosophy, Director of the Centre for the Study of Buddhist Philosophy, Mahachulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Aaron Rabinowitz, Professor, former Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, School of Psychology, Israel
Corinna Reichl, PhD, University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Thomas Reisch, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Hospital of Psychiatry Muesingen, Switzerland; University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Switzerland
Nils Retterstøl†, MD, PhD, formerly Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Norway; Head of Gaustad Hospital, Oslo; Editor of European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences; Honorary Member of AEP, IASP and the Swedish Psychiatric Association; President of IASP; Board member of AEP (presently known as EPA)
Natalie B. Riblet, Staff Psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Dartmouth Institute, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth, White River Junction, Vermont, USA
Zoltán Rihmer, MD, PhD, DSc, Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Semmelweis University, Budapest, and National Institute of Psychiatry and Addictions, Budapest, Hungary
Yerko Rojas, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Sweden; Senior Researcher, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden
Elsa Ronningstam, PhD, Associate Clinical Professor Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Psychologist, McLean Hospital; Member of faculty at Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Member of Boston Suicide Study Group; Former President of International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, ISSPD
Vsevolod Rozanov, Professor, Chair of Health Psychology and Deviant Behaviours, Department of Psychology, Saint-Petersburg State University, St.-Petersburg, Russian Federation
M David Rudd, PhD, ABPP, President, University of Memphis and Distinguished University Professor in Psychology, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Dan Rujescu, MD, PhD, University Professor and Director of the University Clinic and Outpatient Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
Wolfgang Rutz, MD, PhD, Professor of Social Psychiatry and Public Mental Health; Former Head of Unit for Psychiatry and Health Promotion, Division of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden; Faculty of Social Sciences, University for Applied Sciences, Coburg, Germany; Vice Chair of the WASP Section for Psychiatry and Migration; Senior Consultant, Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University, Sweden; Former Regional Advisor for Mental Health, World Health Organization (WHO), Europe
Marco Sarchiapone, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at the Medicine and Health Science Department of University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy; Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at the Kazakh National Medical University, Alamaty, Kazakhstan; Chair of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) Section of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention
Mark Schechter, MD, Chair, Department of Psychiatry, North Shore Medical Centre, Salem, Massachusetts, USA; Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Member of the Boston Suicide Study Group, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Armin Schmidtke, Dr. Phil, Dr. Med. Habilitation, Senior Professor, Centre for Psychic Health, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzberg, Germany
Brian Shiner, MD, MPH, Staff Psychiatrist Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centre, White River Junction, United States; Assistant Professor, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States; Director, Patient Safety Centre of Inquiry for Prevention of Suicide, White River Junction, Vermont, USA
Gal Shoval, MD, Associate Professor, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University; Director of the Child and Adolescent Division of Geha Mental Health Centre, Israel
Marcus Sokolowski, PhD, Associate Professor, National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP), Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden, chair of the Suicide Prevention Network of the European College Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP)
Barbara Stanley, PhD, Professor of Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University; Director, Suicide Prevention Training Implementation and Evaluation, Centre for Practice Innovations, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA
Elsebeth Stenager, PhD, Professor, Consultant in Focused Research Unit Psychiatry Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Aabenraa, Denmark
Egon Stenager, MD, Professor, Head of Research, Consultant Neurologist, University Hospital of Southern Jutland, Aabenraa, Denmark; Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Anthony Spirito, PhD, ABPP, Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Albert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Katherin Sudol, MD, Resident Physician, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Lynn Tang, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University, Hong-Kong
David Titelman, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychoanalyst, affiliated to the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP) at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Previous Director of NASP's Graduate and Postgraduate Training Programs
Prakarn Thomyangkoon, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Rajavithi Hospital, College of Medicine Rangsit University, Bangkok, Thailand
Gustavo Turecki, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Herman M van Praag, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Academic Hospital, Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Chair of the WPA Section, Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry.
Airi Värnik, MD, PhD, Professor in Mental Health, Head of the PhD program 'Health Behaviour and Wellbeing' at Tallinn University, School of Natural Sciences and Health, Estonia; Founder, Management Board Member and Principal Investigator at the Estonian-Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute (ERSI), Tallinn, Estonia; Visiting Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Tartu, Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, Tartu, Estonia
Peeter Värnik, PhD in Demography at Tallinn University, Management Board Member at the Estonian-Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute (ERSI), Tallinn, Estonia; Board Member at the Nõmme Health Clinic, Tallinn, Estonia
Lakshmi Vijayakumar, MBBS, DPM, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Founder, SNEHA, India; Former Vice President of the International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP)
Maj Vinberg, Clinical Associate Research Professor, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Copenhagen Affective Disorders Research Centre (CADIC), Copenhagen Mental Health Centre
Flora von Spreti, Art Therapist, Technical University Munich, Psychiatry Clinic, Munich, Germany
Camilla Wasserman, PhD in Medicine and Health Sciences and MA in Anthropology; Scientific Project Director, Child Psychiatric Epidemiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York City, New York, United States; Founder of the Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM) programme
Danuta Wasserman, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Suicidology at Karolinska Insitutet (KI) Stockholm, Sweden; Founder and Head of the National Swedish Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP) Stockholm, Sweden; Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Research, Methods Development and Training in Suicide Prevention at KI; Chair of the Committee on Ethics of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA), Honorary President of the Estonian-Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute (ERSI); Principal Investigator for the Genetic Investigation of Suicide and Attempted Suicide (GISS) study and the Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE) mental health promotion programme, and other European Union Projects; FormerPresident of the International Association of Suicide Research (IASR) and of the EPA
Jerzy Wasserman†, MD, PhD, Professor of Immunology; Former Director for the Institute of Bacteriology and Virology, Stockholm; Principal Scientific Field Director of the GISS Project (Genetic Investigation of Suicide and Suicidal Behaviours), National Swedish Prevention of Suicide and Mental Ill-Health (NASP) at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Igor Weinberg, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Associate Psychologist, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Michael Westerlund, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Jacky Wong, Research Officer, The Hong Kong Jockey Club Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Akiko Yamasaki, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Osaka University, Japan
Paul Yip, Chair Professor (Population Health) of the Department Social Work and Social Administration and the Founding Director of the Centre for the Suicide Research and Prevention; Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; National Representative of the International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP); Fellow of the International Association of Suicide Research (IASR); Stengel Awardee (2011).
Gil Zalsman, MD, MHA, Director, Geha Mental Health Centre and Adolescent Day Unit, Clalit HMO; Professor of Psychiatry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University; Israel; Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York; USA; President of the International Academy for Suicide Research
