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Community Events

Mental Health Awareness Month Events

Faculty News

Bernice Pescosolido to give Matilda White Riley Distinguished Lecturer keynote address at NIH Honors event in Washington, DC

Faculty Publications

Irsay Co-Director Kosali Simon co-authors special report in The Lancet examining why so many people who require mental healthcare are not getting it

Book Publication

Anna Mueller’s ‘devastating work of scholarship’ unveils social roots of youth suicide

Study Results

Public report offers school-based strategies to prevent suicide

Conferences & Symposiums

Irsay Institute supports HEAL-R conference promoting health equity scholars and scholarship

Research Update

Stronger social networks key to addressing mental health in young adults, research team led by Brea Perry finds

Faculty Research

Bernice Pescosolido and Leslie Hulvershorn discuss alarming numbers of depression and suicide among Indiana’s youth

Faculty Research

Bernice Pescosolido discusses approaches to improve the measurement of suicide in law enforcement

Faculty News

Brea Perry named associate vice president and vice provost for research

Irsay Update

The Irsay Institute Officially Opens!

Faculty Achievements

Irsay Co-Director Kosali Simon elected to National Academy of Social Insurance

Faculty News

Kosali Simon selected by National Academies to examine current state of racial and ethnic health disparities in the U.S.

Faculty Research

Anna Mueller co-authors article offering a vision for building suicide prevention capacities in schools

Faculty Research

Leslie Hulvershorn, IU School of Medicine’s first female psychiatry chair, inspires department with passion for excellence

Faculty Research

BK Lee’s article on the role of multilayered peer groups in adolescent depression wins Best Publication Award

Faculty News

Brea Perry named interim associate vice president and vice provost for research

Faculty Research

Leslie Hulvershorn named chair of Department of Psychiatry at IU School of Medicine

Faculty Research

COVID-19 misinformation linked to vaccination hesitancy, refusal

Faculty Research

Expanded screening tool could improve substance use disorder diagnosis, treatment

Faculty Research

Student advocates for mental health, social justice: ‘Recognize what other people go through’

Faculty Achievements

Irsay Co-Director Kosali Simon Appointed as Distinguished Professor

Faculty Research

Stigma surrounding depression drops for first time in U.S.

Faculty Research

Irsays to donate $3 million to create IU research institute on mental health, stigma

Faculty Research

$2.7M grant expands psychiatry-based substance abuse disorder services for adolescents, caregivers

Faculty Research

Anna Mueller receives $1.2M NIH grant to help schools address youth suicide

Faculty News

Kosali Simon, Irsay Co-Director, elected to National Academy of Medicine

Faculty Research

Nearly 140,000 U.S. Deaths Prevented by Early COVID-19 Vaccinations

Faculty News

Bernice Pescosolido elected to National Academy of Sciences