Description of Collaborative Activity: |
Founded in September 2010, the NAASP is a public-private partnership designed to advance the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention in the United States. The NAASP's Research Priority Task Force (RPTF) is charged with developing a process to prioritize suicide prevention research efforts and consider ways to integrate science and service to ensure that suicide deaths decrease significantly within the next decade. The RPTF released the Nation's first suicide research agenda, “A Prioritized Research Agenda for Suicide Prevention: An Action Plan to Save Lives.” The research agenda includes an overarching goal to advance suicide prevention research more rapidly, seeking ways to reduce suicide deaths and attempts by 20% in five years and by 40% or greater in ten years. In 2015, the RPTF produced the "U.S. National Suicide Prevention Research Efforts: 2008-2013 Portfolio Analyses." The analyses revealed that investments in suicide research are severely lagging, but there is a growing knowledge base of intervention research. In 2016, the National Institutes of Health, Office of Disease Prevention supported the “Pathways to Prevention Workshop, Advancing Research to Prevent Youth Suicide in 2016,” which further refined methodological challenges and data linkage needs relevant to multiple NIH Institutes. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) developed a request for information relevant to this workshop, and a federal partners meeting in the spring of 2017 will consider additional actions in response to the workshop recommendations. |
Type of Collaborative Activity: |
Committee, Advisory Group, or Work Group
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NIH Participating Institutes/Centers/Office of the Director: |
NIAAA, NIDA, NIMH, OD/DPCPSI/OBSSR, OD/DPCPSI/ODP |
HHS Agency Collaborators on this Activity: |
ACL, CDC, HRSA, IHS, OS, OSG, SAMHSA |
