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The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) hosts a series of webinars discussing effective interventions for the implementation of suicide prevention strategies and programs.

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) invests $7.8 million in three mental health and suicide prevention research projects, including a real-time suicide and self-harm cluster monitoring system.

The aim of the Institute is to bring together researchers from around the globe to improve research in men’s health areas including mental health, prostate and testicular cancers, gender-specific health care, and men's health literacy.

The National Mental Health Commission releases report on people’s lived experience of distress and mental ill-health in Australia.

The Australian Government is providing $8 million for ten projects in mental health and suicide prevention under the Medical Research Future Fund’s (MRFF) Million Minds Mental Health Research Mission.

Everymind asked the CBPATSISP to share some recent work they have been involved in, including empowering Aboriginal-led research projects.

Researchers call for trauma-informed approaches following results showing how common child maltreatment is and the links with outcomes later in life, such as self-harm and suicide.

Researchers from Flinders University and the South Australian Medical Research Institute have found that older Australians who were accessing or waiting for aged care services died by suicide between 2008 and 2017.

The report was an industry project prepared for the National Mental Health Commission and conducted by UniSA’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Research and Education Group.

A systematic review has examined the barriers and facilitators experienced by young adults and GPs in raising the discussion of suicide during medical appointments.