Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Dr. Vladimir Carli, MD, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Prevention of Suicide and Mental Ill-Health at the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention (NASP), at Karolinska Institutet (KI). He is project leader of the project Suicide Prevention through Internet and Media-based Suicide Prevention (SUPREME), funded by the European Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC), Assistant Project Leader of the 7th Framework Programme EU funded projects Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE) and Working in Europe to Stop Truancy Among Youth (WE-STAY).
Dr. Carli is Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research, Training and Methods Development in Suicide Prevention. He collaborated with the WHO in the development of the section on Suicide of the mhGAP intervention guide, and is cochair the workgroup on “Risk Factors and Evidence Based Interventions” that will produce the corresponding section of the WHO World Report on Suicide.
Dr. Carli is co-author of more than 50 scientific publications. He also regularly teaches about suicide prevention to undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students and supervises PhD students. Dr. Carli is Vice President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, Executive Board member of the Suicidology Section of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), Secretary General of the Network on Suicide Prevention of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) and the Section of Sucidology and Suicide Prevention of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA). Dr. Carli’s current main areas of interest are in the field of e-delivery of suicide preventive interventions, development and evaluation of interventions for young people, development of collaborative online tools for researchers in suicidology, and development of statistical methods for the evaluation of suicide risk.