RISING SUN: Prioritized Outcomes for Suicide Prevention in the Arctic

Pamela Y Collins1, Roberto A Delgado1, Charlene Apok1

  • 1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle (Collins); National Science Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia (Delgado); South Central Foundation, Anchorage, Alaska (Apok, Dillard); North Star Hospital, Anchorage (Baez); National Institute of Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, and Center for Health Research, University of Greenland, Nuuk (Bjerregaard); Institute for Circumpolar Health, Northwest Territories and School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (Chatwood); Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage (Chipp); Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto (Crawford); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (Crosby); University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia (Driscoll); Utsjoki Health Care Centre, Utsjoki, Finland (Ericksen); Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, and Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, Saskatchewan, Canada (Hicks); National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen (Larsen); Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockville, Maryland (McKeon); Saami Council, Kiruna, Sweden (Partapuoli); Department of Psychiatry and Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (Phillips); National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Bethesda, Maryland (Pringle); Center for Alaska Native Health Research, Institute of Arctic Biology, and College of Rural and Community Development, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks (Rasmus); School of Health Sciences, University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland (Sigurðardóttir); Centre for Sámi Health Research, Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø-the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø (Silviken); Sami Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Finnmark County Hospital Trust, Karasjok, Norway (Silviken, Stoor); Institute of Public Health, Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk Region, Russian Federation (Sumarokov); School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Wexler). Kathleen M. Pike, Ph.D., and Pamela Scorza, Sc.D., M.P.H., are editors of this column.

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