Ella Arensman Msc, PhD

Professor Ella Arensman is Director of Research with the National Suicide Research Foundation (NSRF) and Adjunct Professor with the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College Cork, Ireland. She holds an MSc and Ph.D. from Leiden University, The Netherlands. She has been involved in research and prevention into suicide and self-harm for more than 28 years, with an emphasis on risk and protective factors associated with suicide and self-harm and the effectiveness of suicide prevention and self-harm intervention programs. In Ireland, she played a key role in developing Reach Out, the National Strategy for Action on Suicide Prevention (2005-2014), and she is currently involved in the development of the new Irish Strategic Framework for Suicide Prevention, 2015-2020. In recent years, she developed an innovative Suicide Support and Information System (SSIS). She has published extensively in scientific peer-reviewed journals and international textbooks, and she fulfills an advisory role on many national and international steering groups, and editorial boards, including Crisis.