Kairi Kõlves

Dr. Kairi Kõlves is a Principal Research Fellow/Professor at the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention and Co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention, Griffith University. She has been working in suicide research and prevention since 1998. Prior to joining the AISRAP team in 2008, she worked at the Estonian-Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute. Dr Kõlves has been involved in several Australian, Estonian and international projects and has published 100 peer-reviewed papers, a number of book chapters and numerous reports on suicide research and prevention. She is a member of a number of advisory committees including the Commonwealth Department of Health’s Expert Panel on Suicide Prevention, the Queensland Advisory Group on Suicide, the Advisory Board of ‘Lifeline Research Foundation’, the Queensland Child Death Case Review Panel and others. In 2010 she was the recipient of the Australian LIFE Award in Emerging Research category, in 2017 the Griffith Health Pro Vice Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award (Mid-Career Researcher) and the Publication Award of the Menzies Health Institute Queensland.