sneha suicide update

6 Credit Hours by the Tamil Nadu Medical Council (TNMC). All eligible delegates will receive 6 TNMC Credit Points as per council norms.

SNEHA Suicide Update 2026

SNEHA Suicide Update 2026

Faculty

PROF. ANN JOHN

Prof. Public Health and Psychiatry Swansea University Chair,

National Advisory Group on Suicide and Self harm prevention 

Welsh Government

PROF. DIANA E CLARKE

Director of Research and Senior Research Statistician/Epidemiologist

American Psychiatric Association Assistant Professor

Department of Mental Health Johns Hopkins Bloomberg

School of Public Health

PROF. ANNETTE ERLANGSEN

Adjunct Professor Johns Hopkins University

Honorary Associate Professor Australian National University

Danish Research Institute for Suicide Prevention

PROF. DIEGO DE LEO

Director Emeritus WHO Collaborating Centre for

Research and Training in Suicide Prevention Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry

Griffith University, Brisbane Director, Slovene Centre for Suicide Research

PROF. BRIAN L MISHARA

Director and Founder, Centre for Research and Intervention on Suicide

Ethical Issues and End-of-Life Practices (CRISE) Professor of Psychology

University of Quebec à Montréal

PROF. DINESH BHUGRA

Professor of Mental Health & Cultural Diversity,

Institute of Psychiatry King’s College London

PROF. GIL ZALSMAN

Prof of Psychiatry, Tel Aviv University 

Past CEO, Geha Mental Health Center,  ISRAEL 

Past president of the IASR 

Co-chair of child psychiatry network of ECNP

PROF. GUSTAVO TURECKI

Chair, Department of Psychiatry McGill University

Director, McGill Group For Suicide Studies

PROF. GIN S MALHI

Head, Academic Department of Psychiatry

CADE Clinic University of Sydney

PROF. HELEN HERRMAN

Professor Emerita of Psychiatry Centre for Youth Mental Health

University of Melbourne

PROF. GREGORY ARMSTRONG

Head, Global & Cultural Mental Health Unit

Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

PROF. JANE PIRKIS

Director and Professor Centre for Mental Health

Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

PROF. JO ROBINSON

Head, Suicide Prevention Research, Orygen Centre for Youth Mental Health

Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, 

University of Melbourne

PROF. MARIA A OQUENDO

Chair, Department of Psychiatry Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

PROF. J JOHN MANN

Paul Janssen Professor of Translational Neuroscience in Psychiatry

 and Radiology Director, Molecular Imaging and

Neuropathology Division Dept. of Psychiatry

Co-Director, Columbia Center

for Prevention and Treatment of Depression

Columbia University / New York State

Psychiatric Institute

PROF. MERETE NORDENTOFT

Chief Psychiatrist

Psychiatric Center Copenhagen

Professor, University of Copenhagen

PROF. KEITH HAWTON

Emeritus Director and Professor of Psychiatry

Centre for Suicide Research

University of Oxford

PROF. MORTON M SILVERMAN

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Medical College of Wisconsin

PROF. PAUL YIP

Director, HKJC Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention

Associate Dean (Research) Faculty of Social Sciences

The University of Hong Kong

DR. SOUMITRA PATHARE

Director, Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy

Indian Law Society (ILS), Pune

PROF. PRABHA S CHANDRA

Senior Professor 

Department of Psychiatry 

National Institute of Mental Health and 

Neurosciences (NIMHANS)

DR. SOUMYA SWAMINATHAN

Chair – MSSR Foundation

Chennai

MS. RAMYA KANNAN

Health editor and Chief of Bureau

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, The Hindu

DR. M SURESH KUMAR

Consultant Psychiatrist

Chennai

PROF. RORY O’CONNOR

Professor of Health Psychology Director, Suicidal Behaviour Research

Laboratory School of Health & Wellbeing

University of Glasgow

PROF. THOMAS NIEDERKROTENTHALER

Professor, Public Mental Health Unit University of Vienna

Founder Chairman, Wiener Werkstaette

for Suicide Research

MS. VANDA SCOTT

Special Invitee International Association

for Suicide Prevention (IASP)

PROF. VLADIMIR CARLI

Head, Research Units National Centre of Suicide Prevention

Karolinska Institute

PROF. VENKATASUBRAMANIAN GANESAN

Professor of Psychiatry

National Institute of Mental Health and

Neurosciences (NIMHANS)

MS. WENDY ORCHARD

Chief Executive Officer International Association

for Suicide Prevention (IASP)

PROF. VIKRAM PATEL

Paul Farmer Professor and Chair Department of Global Health and Social

Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Co-Founder, Sangath

PROF. YOGESH DWIVEDI

Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry Elesabeth Ridgely Shook

Endowed Chair for Psychiatric Research University of 

Alabama at Birmingham

PROF. YUNYU XIAO

Assistant Professor, Department of

Population Health Sciences

Health Informatics and

Artificial Intelligence and in Psychiatry

Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University