Σύσκεψη
στο Υπουργείο Υγείας
για
το θέμα των αυτοκτονιών
Το
Υπουργείο Υγείας φιλοξενεί σύσκεψη με τη διακεκριμένη ψυχολόγο δρα Kelly Posner,
ιδρυτή και κύρια ερευνήτρια του Κέντρου για την εκτίμηση κινδύνου για τις
αυτοκτονίες στο Πανεπιστήμιο Κολούμπια, ΗΠΑ, με θέμα συζήτησης τις αυτοκτονίες,
την Τετάρτη, 28 Μαΐου
στις 2:30 μ.μ. στην
αίθουσα συσκέψεων του Υπουργείου, στον 9 ο όροφο και στη συνέχεια θα
γίνουν δηλώσεις στα ΜΜΕ.
Στη
σύσκεψη θα συμμετάσχει, μεταξύ άλλων, ο Υπουργός Δικαιοσύνης και Δημοσίας Τάξεως
ενώ θα συμμετάσχουν και εκπρόσωποι των Υπουργών Παιδείας και Πολιτισμού, και
Άμυνας.
Το
θέμα ανησυχεί ιδιαιτέρως το Υπουργείο Υγείας και σε συνεργασία με όλα τα
συναρμόδια Υπουργεία και φορείς, εξετάζονται τρόποι άμβλυνσης και περιορισμού
του φαινομένου καθώς τα ποσοστά αυτοκτονιών στην Κύπρο παρουσιάζουν αυξητική
τάση τα τελευταία χρόνια.
Biographical Sketch
Dr.
Kelly Posner has been internationally recognized for her work on suicide
prevention and depression. She is the founder and Principal Investigator of the
Center for Suicide Risk Assessment at Columbia University.
In June of 2008 she gave the invited presentation on tackling depression
and suicide at the first European Union high level conference on mental health.
She was commissioned by the US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) to lead a study to develop improved methods of suicide risk assessment.
The methods developed have been recommended or mandated across numerous areas
of medicine. The New York Times called
this work “one of the most profound
changes of the past 16 years to regulations governing drug development” and the
FDA has characterized this work on suicide prevention as “setting a standard in
the field.” This
method of identification –the C-SSRS- has become a central component of the
international public health initiative to combat suicide risk. Many countries, states, and
militaries have moved towards system-wide implementation of the C-SSRS through
policy or legislation. Its widespread
international use includes the National Suicide Prevention Program in Israel
and Health Ministry, Health Canada, The United Stated Army and all other
military components, The Department of Corrections—Australia, the US Centers
for Disease Control, the Federal Food and Drug Administration, Korean
Association for Suicide Prevention, Japanese National Institute, the Israeli
Defense Forces and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and is ranked among the
suicide prevention 100 Best Practices by the World Health Organization (WHO) in
Europe.
She is an internationally sought
after expert working within most countries on suicide prevention and top-down
implementation of her methods. Dr. Posner was named one of New York Magazine’s “Most
Influential” people and in 2007 was recognized as the most
Distinguished Alumna of her graduate school at Yeshiva University in the past
50 years. She is a member
of the board of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and received the New
York State Suicide Prevention Award in 2013. She will also soon be an
honoree of the Center for Law & Economic Justice. As a renowned spokesperson on suicide prevention and the
treatment of depression, she has made
numerous appearances on NBC, CBS, World News Tonight, CNN, and many
other global media forums.
Dr.
Kelly Posner is a leading educational philanthropist and has founded cutting
edge models of education reform. She is the Founding Chairman of the Board of
Turnaround for Children, the groundbreaking model that is the first to fix
failing schools in high-poverty communities, often referred to as "a
missing link" of the education reform challenge. She is also
founder of the first independent school and Institute for advanced learners and for her work in her innovative
educational initiatives; she was named “Education
Philanthropist of the Year". In 2011 she was also granted The
Turnaround Impact Award. Dr. Posner was recently honored by The
Lincoln Center/The Kaufman Music Center with their annual “Educational Leadership Award”.
