🧵Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide & the way we as journalists cover it can make a big difference. I’m excited to announce that Holly Wilcox Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health & I have launched a free online Coursera course to help reporters do this safely. bit.ly/reportonsuicide

Sadly, this tweet from 1 week ago is needed again.

This is an horrendously bad response, scripted from NRA talking points. The weight of evidence suggests that policies that allow more ppl to carry guns is more@likely to increase than decrease shootings. Smart gun laws keep the bad things ppl do from being lethal.

The spirit of incredible adolescents who are speaking and living their truth, and finding creative ways to do it in the face of discrimination and oppression leaves me in awe and also extreme anger and sadness that this their reality. We must do better.

Ya’ll remember the rapid review calls for Covid-19 grants? What if we had rapid review of suicide prevention for Black youth grants? These kids can’t wait a year or 2 for our grants to be submitted and scored. We are literally in a youth mental health epidemic and it’s terrifying

Dragged myself to my campus office and picked up my mail. It’s official! Associate Professor of Education and Associate Professor of Nursing. <pats self on back> UVA School of Education and Human Development UVA School of Nursing Thank you to all who helped me along the way! #healthequitynow #Academiclife

Congrats to Katrina Debnam, PhD MPH for officially being promoted to associate! So well deserved!

Remind me again how we stop bad guys with guns?

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Free download alert! Such a pleasure working with colleagues Daniel Camacho, @smoore_phd and Catherine Bradshaw to unpack how teacher, classroom, and school factors relate to interactional quality with students.

‼️‼️New Research Alert‼️‼️ Worked with ⁦⁦Katrina Debnam, PhD MPH⁩ and colleagues to explore the complicated role of school police officers from their perspective: “A social worker…teacher…principal – we’re everybody”: The School Police Officer Role in Schools tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Couldn’t agree more for those of us in academia. Thinking about others careers though too and their struggles, I think the original author on this achieved what was intended- broadly applicable career advice with amazing food for thought.

This has been all of 2022. Hardest year of the pandemic yet when it comes to this.

If you want to learn multilevel modelling but don't know where to start, JK Flake 📈📏 and I have created the website for you: learn-mlms.com A brief summary of the materials and the impetus for them: (1/6)

Please share widely: 1 min survey for junior PIs in addiction research: We are submitting an R25 grant to provide career development training in research methods, leadership and managerial skills, and resiliency. Would you be interested? tinyurl.com/zpcmvxru

Every day is #WorldMentalHealth day in our Dept of Mental Health Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - Our mission is to advance understanding of mental & behavioral health, develop & implement methods for prevention and tx, and promote wellbeing in populations globally. publichealth.jhu.edu/departments/me…

Looking for a stellar mentor in mixed methodology? Apply to work with Katrina Debnam, PhD MPH! I have seen her mentor and advise firsthand and she is one of the best!

Looking for 2 school-based research study coordinators/coaches hired within Dept of Mental Health at BSPH to work in high schools on #wellness, #SEL, and #communitybuilding. Check out the job posting and please share! jobs.jhu.edu/job/Baltimore-…

Are you interested in #MentalHealth from a public health perspective? Come learn about our masters program - in-person and online options/ full-time and part-time Dept of Mental Health at BSPH