Organizations that fund and/or conduct suicide research:

National Institute of Mental Health

Suicide Research Consortium
This group of NIMH scientists coordinates program development in suicide research across the Institute, stimulates and monitors extramural research on suicide, and disseminates science-based information on suicidology

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Suicide Prevention Research Center
With support from the NCIPC, the Trauma Institute of the University of Nevada School (UNSOM) of Medicine has established a Suicide Prevention research Center organized around four core areas of activity: administration and program and policy development; methodology development and program evaluation; research; and education and dissemination.

University of Oxford
Centre for Suicide Research
The Centre is based in the University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry. This research group investigates the causes, treatment and prevention of suicidal behavior.

Funding opportunities for researchers:

National Institute of Mental Health solicits grants in two categories:

Studies of Suicide and Suicidal Behavior

Interventions for Suicidal Youth

Information and data sources for researchers:

Suicide Prevention: Prevention Effectiveness and Evaluation

Selected Bibliography on Suicide Research (1999)
Prepared by the National Institute of Mental Health

Developing a Research Agenda for Suicide Survivors
This paper, developed by scientists at the National Institute of Mental Health, outlines some of the questions and issues that may serve as a framework for studying the needs of suicide survivors.

CDC Wonder

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention morbidity and mortality data
An interactive and searchable data base that provides morbidity and mortality data on many types of injury and disease, developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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