Committees
Conference Co-Chairs
Professor Thomas Niederkrotenthaler
Head, Public Mental Health Research Unit, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna
Professor Chan Lai Fong
Professor and Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, National University of Malaysia (UKM)
Associate Professor Mark Sinyor
Department of Psychiatry,
University of Toronto, Canada
Steering Group
Wendy Orchard (Chair)
Executive Director, IASP
Associate Professor Benedikt Till
Medical University of Vienna, Center for Public Health.
Alexander Grabenhofer Eggerth
Austrian National Public Health Institute
Diana van Bergen
Dr Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie
Lecturer, University of Ghana
Professor Rakhi Dandona
Public Health Foundation of India; University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Golli Marboe
Organising Committee
Wendy Cliff (Chair)
Head of Membership and Events, IASP
Katherine Thomson
Head of Marketing and Campaigns, IASP
Oscar Pacheco
WMA, local PCO
Associate Professor Benedikt Till
Medical University of Vienna, Center for Public Health.
Maggie Hardiman
Membership and Events, IASP
Dr Stefanie Kirchner
Medical University of Vienna, Center for Public Health.
Scientific Committee
Scientific Committee Co-Chairs
Professor Thomas Niederkrotenthaler
Head, Public Mental Health Research Unit, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna
Professor Chan Lai Fong
Professor and Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, National University of Malaysia (UKM)
Associate Professor Mark Sinyor
Department of Psychiatry,
University of Toronto, Canada
Scientific Committee Members
Professor Greg Armstrong (Australia)
University of Melbourne
Professor Jo Robinson (Australia)
Orygen, Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne
Dan Rujescu (Austria)
Head of Psychiatry, Vienna
Professor Martin Voracek (Austria)
University of Vienna
Professor Brian Mishara (Canada)
Director, Centre for Research and Intervention on Suicide Ethical issues and End of Life Practices, University Quebec.
Professor Charity Akotia (Ghana)
Community Psychologist, School of Social Sciences, Ghana
Dr Anish Cherian (India)
National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengalura, India
Professor Vikas Menon (India)
Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), India
Dr Sandersan Onie (Indonesia)
Blackdog Institute; Founder, INASP
Shira Barzilay (Israel)
Senior Lecturer, Department of Community Mental Health, University of Haifa, Israel
Professor Lars Mehlum (Norway)
Director, National Centre for Suicide Research & Prevention, University of Oslo
Professor Murad Khan (Pakistan)
Aga Khan University, Karachi
Associate Professor Vita Postuvan (Slovenia)
Deputy Head, The University of Primorska, Andrej Marušič Institute, Slovene Centre for Suicide Research & FAMNIT, Department of Psychology.
Professor Ellenor Mittendorfer Rutz (Sweden)
Karilinska Institute
Professor Shu-Sen Chang (Taiwan)
National Taiwan University
Professor Ann John (UK)
Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry at the Swansea University Medical School
Dr Duleeka Knipe (UK)
Senior Research Fellow and Bristol Medical School’s Deputy Research Director for EDI
Professor Julie Cerel PhD (USA)
University of Kentucky
Professor Kairi Kolves (Australia)
Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, Griffith University
Alexander Grabenhofer Eggerth (Austria)
Austrian National Public Health Institute
Associate Professor Benedikt Till (Austria)
Medical University of Vienna, Center for Public Health.
Dr Daiane Borges Machado (Brazil)
CIDACS/FIOCRUZ & Harvard Medical School
Dr Annette Erlangsen (Denmark)
Head of program Danish Research Institute for Suicide Prevention, Denmark
Dr Emmanuel Nii Boye Quarshie (Ghana)
Lecturer, University of Ghana
Professor Rakhi Dandona (India)
Public Health Foundation of India; University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar (India)
SNEHA; Dept of Psychiatry, Voluntary Health Services, Chennai
Professor Ella Arensman (Ireland)
Head of School of Public Health, Professor of Public Mental Health, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Chief Scientist, National Suicide Research Foundation, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Professor Yossi Levi-Belz (Israel)
The Lior Tsfaty Center for Suicide and Mental Pain Studies, Ruppin Academic Center, Israel
Professor Ping Qin (Norway)
University of Oslo
Professor Diego De Leo (Slovenia)
Emeritus Professor
Dr Nusa Zadravec Sedivy (Slovenia)
The University of Primorska, Andrej Marušič Institute, Slovene Centre for Suicide
Dr Piumee Bandara (UK)
Honorary Research Fellow, Bristol, UK
Professor Ying-Yeh Chen (Taiwan)
National Yang Ming University
Professor Navneet Kapur (UK)
Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health at the University of Manchester
Professor Steven Stack (USA)
Wayne State University
