Are you interested in mental health, alcohol or substance use treatments, digital therapies and/or social determinants of health? Come study with me and Prof. Frances Kay-Lambkin with a PhD scholarship from the Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation! See more here bit.ly/3Q5MUl3

I'm hiring a full-time lab manager/research coordinator to start in summer 2024! Come join me as a founding member of the Computational Clinical Science Lab at Yale! For more information about the position & how to apply: tinyurl.com/ccslabmanager Please RT & share widely!

I am hiring 3 Postdoctoral Associates for projects on mental health informatics, focusing on health determinants & suicide prevention. Work involves machine learning, NLP, and impactful research. phs.weill.cornell.edu/about-us/caree…

Delighted to announce that I have joined the international editorial board of BJPsych Journals as a handling editor! Looking forward to working w my fellow editors & help to shape future thematic series on #selfharm & #SuicidePrevention cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Congratulations to Gowri Rajaram 🌱 Dr Louise La Sala & Aditya Basu from Orygen University of Melbourne for your fantastic lightening round presentations at #IASPResearchWorkshop24

NEWS | A world-first review of global studies, led by Orygen Senior Research Fellow Dr Katrina Witt, D.Phil, has found 1 in 3 adults and a quarter of young people are not provided with a psychosocial assessment following hospital treatment for self-harm. More: bit.ly/4ab293j

New Publication Alert 🔔 What are the most effective actions leaders can take to ensure integration of peer workers into mental health organisations? Here we explain. #OpenAcces #mentalhealth  bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Today we commemorate the 4 year anniversary of the moment when a Nobel laureate articulated the collective mood of an entire nation.

Insightful Emerging Leaders Lunch with entrepreneurs Paul Anthony Hill, expertly facilitated by Prof. Buzz Palmer University of Melbourne UniMelb MDHS. I left feeling recharged, and with some thought-provoking ideas on leadership styles and values! And some amazing views over University of Melbourne too!

A huge and unexpected honour to become a member of the Royal Irish Academy last Friday. Academic recognition from my country of birth means more than I can say 🇮🇪. Extremely grateful to great colleague ⁦Mary Cannon⁩

Very proud of Gowri Rajaram 🌱 from Orygen UniMelb MDHS presenting work from her #PhD on the different experiences of culturally & linguistically diverse persons accessing help after #selfharm International Association for Suicide Prevention #IASPBANGKOK2024! Well done Gowri! Keep a look out for her pubs & thesis!

Farage looks like he's sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook...

Honoured to be asked to present my thoughts on much needed #Innovations in big data, #MachineLearning & precision psych for #SuicidePrevention & #selfharm #prevention UNSW Centre for Big Data Research in Health Black Dog Institute UNSW & to future collabs to advance take these discussions further!

With #youth #selfharm & #suicide rising it's crucial to act now. Our new Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry review calls for greater #codesign so txs meets needs, are engaging, & target outcomes imp to YP. We provide clear, actionable recs too: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jc… University of Melbourne University of Oxford Orygen

In this #OpenAccess Practitioner Review, Dr Katrina Witt, D.Phil et al. significantly update and build on previous reviews with the aim of identifying issues in research relevant to #ClinicalPractice with regard to treatments for young people who self-harm. bit.ly/3Mz2l2E

As rates of youth self-harm and suicide continue to escalate, addressing gaps in self-harm aftercare is vital. Orygen Senior Research Fellow Dr Katrina Witt, D.Phil has led a new paper in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry that outlines eight practical recommendations for clinicians: bit.ly/3MIC9mk