About the Health Quality Journal Club

The HQ Journal Club is a event that brings together academics, health professionals & the wider community to engage with topics related to health quality including risk, patient safety & quality improvement. Each meeting is led by a guest editor who has selected that month's journal article for review and discussion. This year in particular, journal club activities provide us with a virtual connection to our colleagues and to students and increase the exposure of those that attend to the Health Quality global network.

March Journal Club Information

Dr. Ulrich Hegerl is a highly sought-after expert in suicide prevention. He has developed a community based intervention to decrease suicidal behavior which had been implemented in Europe, Chile, and Australia.

Dr. Ulrich Hegerl’s main areas of research include: treatment and prevention of mental disorders, public mental health and community based mental health interventions, suicide prevention, neurobiology of psychiatric disorders, EEG and functional brain imaging, and sleep-wake regulation. He has over 650 publications in peer reviewed journals!

 Dr. Hegerl is:

• President of European Alliance Against Depression http://www.eaad.net/
• President of the German Depression Foundation
• Scientific Advisory Council of the German Medical Association
• Johann Christian Senckenberg Distinguished Professorship, Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.

Join us as we engage in a lively scholarly discussion with the President of the European Alliance Against Depression, Dr. Ulrich Hegerl, and his selected reading on the “Prevention of suicidal behaviour: Results of a controlled community-based intervention study in four European countries”. Dr. Hegerl will provide an introduction on how to identify depression and suicidal behavior in clinical practice, before he is presenting on the experience of testing a community based 4-level intervention targeting depression and suicidal behavior in four different countries.

Selected Reading: Hegerl, U., Maxwell, M., Harris, F., Koburger, N., Mergl, R., Székely, A., ... & OSPI-Europe Consortium. (2019). Prevention of suicidal behaviour: Results of a controlled community-based intervention study in four European countries. PloS one, 14(11), e0224602.

Register for the event to receive the zoom link and the download link for this month’s selected reading!