About the Authors

Matthew J. Spittal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

m.spittal@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliation Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Xianglin Aneta Guo

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Laurant Kang

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hunter New England Local Health District, Waratah, Australia

Olivia J. Kirtley

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Contextual Psychiatry, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Angela Clapperton

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Keith Hawton

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Suicide Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Nav Kapur

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH), Centre for Mental Health and Safety, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Jane Pirkis

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Greg Carter

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia, Department of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital, Waratah, Australia

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: NK works with NHS England on national quality-improvement initiatives for suicide and self-harm; is on the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group for England; chaired the guideline development group for the 2012 UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines on the longer-term management of self-harm; chaired the guideline development group for the 2022 NICE guideline on depression in adults; and was a topic advisor for the 2022 NICE guideline Self-Harm: Assessment, Management and Preventing Recurrence.