Professor Jane Pirkis is an internationally recognised epidemiologist and leading authority on suicide prevention. Her research takes a public health approach to suicide prevention and has informed significant changes in policy and practice. She has also advanced public understanding of suicide prevention through media campaigns. She is Director of the Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing at the University of Melbourne and has served as Scientific Advisor to the National Suicide Prevention Office and Editor-in-Chief of Crisis, an international journal focused on suicide prevention.