The Center for Suicide Research and Prevention (CSRP) is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the CSRP Pilot Grant Program!
The NIH’s newest practice-based center for suicide research, the Center for Suicide Research and Prevention (CSRP) at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, is a multidisciplinary center aimed at advancing and implementing innovative research. In alignment with the NIH’s requirement for practice-based centers to provide opportunities for funded research and the CSRP’s goal to support burgeoning research in the space of suicide prediction and prevention, the CSRP is now accepting applications for pilot grant funding.
Award amount
Selected projects will receive $50,000 to advance their research for one (1) year. Funds can be used flexibly to support salary or research costs.
How to apply
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Deadline
Applications will be accepted until Thursday, February 15, 2024 @5:00 PM EST, for the funding period starting June 1st, 2024 – May 31st, 2025.
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About the Center for Suicide Research and Prevention (CSRP)
Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. A major barrier to suicide prevention has been that cutting-edge scientific advances in the past few decades have not been translated and implemented for use by clinicians working on the front lines of this mental health care crisis.
The Center for Suicide Research and Prevention (CSRP) is a multidisciplinary, practice-based center aimed at advancing and implementing innovative new suicide prevention research. It will support the development, deployment, and evaluation of practice-ready and clinically-focused interventions aimed at improving the identification and effective treatment of patients at risk of suicide. This is a collaborative effort between researchers, clinicians, and stakeholders at the Center for Precision Psychiatry, Mass General Brigham and Harvard University.
The focus of the Center is to improve the identification and prevention of suicide-related behaviors among patients presenting for treatment at emergency departments (EDs) and psychiatric inpatient settings. Decades of research have shown that:
- 50% of people who die by suicide are seen in a healthcare setting within one month before their death.
- 40% visit an ED the year before their death.
- The suicide rate is highest in the weeks immediately following discharge from a psychiatric inpatient setting.
Research has identified the patients are at the highest risk for suicide, and the time periods during which risk is the highest. The CSRP is interested in implementing the best prediction and prevention methods in ED and inpatient settings to decrease the risk of suicidal behavior. All approaches used in the Center have been d
