Data and Surveillance Task Force
This task force was created to guide Action Alliance efforts addressing suicide-related data collection and surveillance. Current objectives include:
- Linking national data systems to improve the quality, specificity, and accuracy of suicide-related data
- Promoting uniform reporting on suicide through utilizing standard language and definitions of self-harm and suicidal thoughts
- Improving access to timely suicide-related data
Task force recommendations for improving national data systems for the surveillance of suicide-related events were presented in a 2014 report published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Co-Leads
- Cindy Claassen, PhD, Clinical Psychologist & Director of Research & Education, JPS Behavioral Health (Private Sector)
- Christopher Jones, PharmD, DrPH, MPH, Acting Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Public Sector)
Members
- Matt Garnett, Injury Epidemiologist/Statistician, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Jill Harkavy-Friedman, PhD, Vice President of Research, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
- Rani A. Hoff, PhD, MPH, Acting Director for Research, Suicide Prevention Program, Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Terrence Hubert, PhD
- John F. McCarthy, , PhD, MPH, Director, Data and Surveillance, Suicide Prevention, and Director, Serious Mental Illness Treatment Resource and Evaluation Center, Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Richard McKeon, PhD, Chief, Suicide Prevention Branch, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- Scott K. Proescholdbell, MPH, Injury Epidemiologist and Surveillance Unit Manager, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
- Kristen Quinlan, PhD, Senior Research Associate, Education Development Center
- Rajeev Ramchand, PhD, Senior Behavioral Scientist, RAND Corporation
- Michael Schoenbaum, PhD, Senior Advisor for Mental Health Services, Epidemiology, and Economics [C], National Institute of Mental Health
- Patricia Smith, MS, RD, Violence Prevention Program Coordinator, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
- Susan Strickland, Associate Director, Research & Program Evaluation, Suicide Prevention, Veterans Health Administration
- Margaret Warner, PhD, Injury Epidemiologist, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Ellen Yard, PhD, Suicide Prevention Team, Applied Science Branch, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention