Research Fellow
Dr Katerina Kavalidou is a Research Fellow at the National Suicide Research Foundation. She has been seconded to work with the HSE National Office for Suicide Prevention as a data manager/analyst of the Irish Probable Suicide Death Study (IPSDS].
Between 2019-2025, Katerina established and developed the national Emergency Department (ED) database of the National Clinical Programme for Self-Harm and Suicide-related Ideation (NCPSHI; HSE). She has received Department of Health funding for understanding the experiences of Irish Traveller women presenting to EDs with a suicidal crisis in Ireland.
Katerina graduated with a PhD on Psychological Medicine from University of Glasgow in 2018 (Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory). Prior to this, she completed her 2-year research master at Karolinska Institute in Sweden (National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health) on mental health promotion and suicide prevention. She has worked as a senior researcher at Griffith University in Australia (Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention) and as a clinician at a Greek day centre for suicide prevention.
Katerina’s interest is on the risk of suicide-related outcomes for those with multimorbidity, those attending health care services for suicidal or self-harm thoughts and the suicide-risk of marginalised communities.
View Katerina’s research profile on ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7394-0293
