Suicide Prevention Expert Will Speak at UMass Amherst Symposium

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Suicide Prevention Expert Will Speak at UMass Amherst Symposium

DATE:       Thursday, April 4, 2019
TIME:        9:30 a.m. - noon
WHAT:      School of Public Health and Health Sciences Dean’s Symposium,
                 “A Conversation in the Community: A Public Health Approach to Suicide Prevention”
WHERE:   UMass Amherst Old Chapel, 144 Hicks Way

AMHERST, Mass. – With U.S. suicides at their highest rate in 50 years, the School of Public Health and Health Sciences Dean’s Symposium invites the public to be part of a forum on suicide prevention. “A Conversation in the Community: A Public Health Approach to Suicide Prevention” features keynote speaker Dr. Eric Caine, director of the Injury Control Research Center for Suicide Prevention at the University of Rochester Medical Center. His topic: “Rethinking Suicide Prevention.”

Other symposium speakers include Kelley Cunningham, director of the suicide prevention program at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Lisa Wexler, UMass Amherst associate professor of health promotion and policy.

Gloria DiFulvio, health promotion and policy senior lecturer, will moderate a panel discussion following the presentations. The public is invited. Register here to attend.