CMH - COVID-19 Research News

As part of the National Leadership in Suicide Prevention Research project led by Professor Jane Pirkis and Dr Lennart Reifels, in collaboration with Life in Mind, a directory of Australian COVID-19 suicide studies and helpful resources for those wishing to conduct research in this area has now gone live.

Prof Tony Jorm has teamed with Prof Vaughan Carr of UNSW to argue for action on homelessness to improve mental health.

Prof Anthony Jorm has published an article in the Conversation examining whether the government’s actions to reduce mental ill-health associated with the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to work.

Professor Tony Jorm has given the inaugural webinar in a series organised by Prevention United on ‘Flattening the curve of mental ill-health’.

Prof Anthony Jorm and Dr Stephen Carbone have authored an article for The Conversation: We need to flatten the ‘other’ coronavirus curve, our looming mental health crisis.

Dr Laura Hart and the teenAID Research Team have produced a mental health tip sheet for teenagers to assist them in dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professor Tony Jorm has been asked by Australian Rotary Health to provide advice for the public on dealing with COVID-19 anxiety.