Citation

Wexler L, Chandler M, Gone JP, Cwik MF, Kirmayer LJ, Lafromboise T, Brockie T, O'Keefe V, Walkup J, Allen J. Am. J. Public Health 2015; 105(5): 891-899.

Affiliation

Lisa Wexler is with the Department of Health Promotion and Policy, Community Health Education, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Michael Chandler is with the Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Joseph P. Gone is with the Departments of Psychology and American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Mary Cwik is with the Division of Social and Behavioral Interventions, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. Laurence J. Kirmayer is with the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. Teresa LaFromboise is with the Stanford Graduate School of Education, CA. Teresa Brockie is with the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Nursing Research and Translational Science, Bethesda, MD. Victoria O'Keefe (Seminole/Cherokee), is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Clinical Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. John Walkup is with the Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY. James Allen is with the Department of Biobehavioral Health and Population Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, American Public Health Association)

DOI

10.2105/AJPH.2014.302517

PMID

25790403

Abstract

As part of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention's American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) Task Force, a multidisciplinary group of AI/AN suicide research experts convened to outline pressing issues related to this subfield of suicidology. Suicide disproportionately affects Indigenous peoples, and remote Indigenous communities can offer vital and unique insights with relevance to other rural and marginalized groups. Outcomes from this meeting include identifying the central challenges impeding progress in this subfield and a description of promising research directions to yield practical results. These proposed directions expand the alliance's prioritized research agenda and offer pathways to advance the field of suicide research in Indigenous communities and beyond. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print March 19, 2015: e1-e9. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2014.302517).

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