Advancing suicide prevention research with rural American Indian and Alaska Native populations

Lisa Wexler1, Michael Chandler, Joseph P Gone

  • 1Lisa 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.

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