632 - Investigating the Why of Suicide: Maryland's New Suicide Fatality Review Committee
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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A new committee in Maryland is charged with a big undertaking: investigating deaths by suicide to help inform prevention efforts. Mental health expert and committee member Dr. Holly Wilcox talks with Stephanie Desmon about how they'll gather data, which includes psychological autopsies, digital health care records, social service agency data and more, and gives some examples of how similar committees in other states have used data in innovative ways to inform interventions. Learn more: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/investigating-the-why-of-suicide
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
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| 0:31.9 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:34.6 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Johns Hopkins suicide researcher Holly Wilcox, |
| 0:39.2 | who's part of a new state initiative called the Maryland Suicide Fatality Review Committee. |
| 0:44.9 | They discuss how doing detective work, psychological autopsies that go beyond the statistics |
| 0:50.3 | by interviewing those who best knew the deceased could help create better prevention |
| 0:55.5 | programs. Let's listen. Holly Wilcox, thanks so much for joining me. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:02.6 | So today, the topic is your expertise, which is suicide. But specifically, there is something |
| 1:09.7 | new here called the Maryland Suicide Fatality Review Committee. |
| 1:13.6 | And I'd like you to tell me what that is. |
| 1:16.0 | Sure. |
| 1:16.6 | So this is a new committee that has been established through legislation. |
| 1:22.5 | And the goal of the committee is to examine data from a variety of different places on those people |
| 1:32.2 | we lost to suicide, Marylanders, we lost to suicide, and try to figure out how to prevent a death |
| 1:39.4 | like that from happening again. |
| 1:42.1 | And how is that going? |
| 1:44.8 | What does it look like? |
| 1:47.0 | Well, we haven't started yet. |
| 1:49.0 | We are just about to get started. |
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