Griffith Centre for Mental Health

📢 Suicide rates in Brazil are rising—especially among Indigenous peoples & adolescents.
A systematic review (2019–2024) highlights urgent gaps in care, research, & training. Collab of Luiza Wille Augustin, @griffith.edu.au's Prof Kairi Kõlves & Pamela Rinozi.
🔗 doi.org/10.3390/ijer... #AISRAP

🎉 Happening this week: Building Safer, Smarter Cities!
Join @griffith.edu.au's Dr Dominique De Andrade, ARC DECRA Awardee, as she shares how linking health & crime data reveals new insights into nightlife harm 🌃 & supports smarter, place-based interventions.
#SmartCities #HealthResearch #CrimeData

👏 Congrats to Prof Tamara Ownsworth for convening #NRSIG2025🧠 Researchers, clinicians & consumers came together to explore neuropsych rehab from the lab to the clinic. PhD candidate @stephreeve.bsky.social, w supervsn from A/Prof @Matthew Gullo, presented in #MentalHealth Datablitz session!👏

🚨Update from @griffith.edu.au's MRFF #MOVEMENT Study. Protocol paper led by @justinjchapman.bsky.social is out now! Exercise can boost quality of life for people with severe mental illness—but many face real barriers - this study explores how to help. Read more👇
🔗 doi.org/10.2147/NDT....

Huge congrats to @griffith.edu.au's Prof Sharon Dawe & the dedicated team on 12 more months of funding for its Child Development Clinic (Logan) and its Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (#FASD) Assessment & models of care! Vital early assessment for young kids+clinician training = powerful impact.👏

More about @griffith.edu.au's Prof Caroline Donovan & team's win in the Cogniss Priority Digital Health Challenge and the development of the Lights Out sleep app👏
@9news.bsky.social #Sleeptraining #Familysupport #LightsOut
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📺 Channel 9: www.facebook.com/watch/?v=279...

Who won at the Priority Digital Health Challenge? | Health Services Daily The winners are two Aussie researchers who are harnessing digital innovation to help sleep-deprived toddlers and nutrition-challenged families.

🥳Congrats to Prof Caroline Donovan & team, 1 of only 2 winners in the Priority Digital Health Challenge!👏Learn about their aim to build an evidence-based app targeting childhood sleep problems👇
www.healthservicesdaily.com.au/who-won-at-t...
@griffith.edu.au @amazonwebservices.bsky.social #Cogniss

Gum disease, decay, missing teeth: why people with mental illness have poorer oral health Poor mental health can lead to poor oral health – and vice versa. Here’s what can be done to tackle this problem.

Read more about @griffith.edu.au's research on why people with mental illness have poorer oral health and how we can do more to address this issue! theconversation.com/gum-disease-...

🚨 New Webinar: "Tinker Tailor Scientist Practitioner: Personalising psychosocial treatment"
Explore how to personalise psychosocial treatments for #addiction with the latest research and practitioner insights.
🎙️ A/Prof Matthew Gullo, @griffith.edu.au
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5MC...

🌟On next week! 🌟Catch @griffith.edu.au's A/Prof Kerryn Pike in person on the #dementia risk reduction panel at the 7th Pacific Rim Conference in Brisbane!
Check out the full program👇
mers.cventevents.com/event/7th-Pa...
#ASSBI #INSneuro #AustralianPsychologicalSociety

📣 Reflections from #IASPVienna2025!
@griffith.edu.au researchers Prof @Kairi Kõlves, A/Prof Jacinta Hawgood & Prof Diego De Leo shared powerful insights on #SuicidePrevention - from education & curriculum, to surveillance & loneliness research. Grateful to @iaspinfo.bsky.social & sponsors! 🙌✈️

🌟On today! A/Prof Matthew Gullo presents an Insight webinar exploring how science can tailor psychosocial #addiction interventions—making them not just effective, but deeply personal & guided by unique style & experience. More details here👇
insight.qld.edu.au/training/per...
#MentalHealth

Photo montage from film premier. Photo 1: steadicam operator filming the red carpet. Photo 2: Group of people posing on the red carpet. One of the people is Arun Ketsirat, Director, Producer and Cinematographer. Photo 3: Shot of the title screen. It has closeups of 3 women's faces and the words read 'PTSD Love Stories'.

🎬This week, GCMH reps attended the premiere of 'PTSD Love Stories'—a rare, powerful glimpse into the lives of carers navigating PTSD’s impact. Huge applause to the filmmakers & participants for sharing these stories with honesty, courage & heart.👏 💪💚#CareForTheCarers #Mentalhealth #PTSD

🚨New publication!🚨Check out the latest research from on the unique challenges youth with serious mental illness (YSMI) face in accessing oral health care 🦷and, more importantly, how we can do better! 💪
Read more👉http://doi.org/10.1111/cdoe.13052
#YouthMentalHealth #OralHealth

News from Vienna! @iaspinfo.bsky.social 33rd World Congress-Prof Kairi Kõlves joins the Partnerships for Life panel, cofacilitates the preconference workshop & presents on suicide surveillance in the Western Pacific & Delphi study findings at #Lifeways symposium. #IASP2025
#aisrap @griffith.edu.au

This week in Vienna! @iaspinfo.bsky.social 33rd World Congress in Vienna! #aisrap's A/Prof Jacinta Hawgood chairs a symposium & co-hosts a workshop with Dr Anna Baran "Enhancing university #suicideprevention curricula".
@Griffith_Uni #FindPapageno

🏍️ PhD opportunity alert! MAIC & @griffith.edu.au’s #RoadSafety Research Collaboration is offering a 3-year #PhDscholarship in motorcycle safety for domestic candidates with a Psychology background or similar. Apply by 5pm Monday 30 June 30! Details below. 👇
www.griffith.edu.au/research-stu...

Prof Neeraj Gill at a lectern presenting to people sitting at round tables in a workshop

Symposium co-presenters in front of large screens reading "Bright Lights Big Ideas". People in the photo are: Daniel Houghton Irene Clelland Neeraj Gill Jappan Sawhney Andrew Wilson Stefan Preissler

Last month @ranzcp.bsky.social's #RANZCP25, @Griffith_Uni's Prof @neerajgill.bsky.social led a workshop & symposium on human rights & psychiatry, challenging traditional practices and exploring the need for reform. How do we turn these insights into action? #CRPD #MentalHealth #SocialJustice #QMHC

🎙️This month at #RANZCP25 @griffith.edu.au's Prof
Lara Farrell highlighted the urgent need for innovation in childhood #OCD treatment. Findings from the OCD Busters program show promising clinical trial results— partnerships are key for scalable impact! #MentalHealth #CBT #Research

📢Out now🚨New study in @BioMedCentral explores the Mindful Movement Program (MMP), combining mindfulness, music & movement in classrooms to enhance executive functions in early primary students. Collab led by @griffith.edu.au's PhD candidate Bronwyn Theroux 👀🔽 doi.org/10.1186/s403...

🚨New collab pub🚨Led by @griffith.edu.au's Prof Allison Waters, studies the Life-Fit-Learning initiative, embedded into a #rugbyleague youth development program & assesses #mentalhealth outcomes for teenage boys & girls. 🔎https://doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2025.2495590

🎉Congrats to @griffith.edu.au's Prof @neerajgill.bsky.social & colleagues from UNSW on their #MRFF Indigenous Health Research grant! Led by Prof Maree Toombs, the project 'Healing Our Spirit' pilots an #Indigenous youth-led #mentalhealth model empowering youth as agents of healing. 💪🧠

New study offers breakthrough in suicide prevention  - Griffith News A major study has produced a series of international expert recommendations on how to better implement suicide prevention strategies, marking a critical

Griffith's #AISRAP researchers, led by Dr. Sadhvi Krishnamoorthy and Prof Kairi Kõlves, in collab with a global multi-institutional research team, share 82 recommendations to enhance #suicideprevention strategies. 🔎 tinyurl.com/22factab
#LivedExperience @griffith.edu.au
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Congrats to @griffith.edu.au's A/Prof Darren Wishart & team on their #MAIC Innovative Research Action Award! The project, Evaluating & Enhancing QRide Motorcycle Licensing & Training, aims to tackle rising motorcycle fatalities in Qld & boost road safety.🛵🔎https://t.co/91x0zmY3Hm

On #ANZACDay, we honour the courage & sacrifice of AUS & NZ servicemen & women, past & present.🎖️To the veterans within Griffith's community—your resilience & contributions enrich us all.We're proud to support veterans & Defence families. Lest we forget. 🔎Veteran Direct pathway ▶️ ow.ly/M2rE50VGJwN

Kerryn Pike Providing access to cognitive interventions in regional memory clinics: Adaptation and implementation of a clinician training package.

Accessing #dementia care in regional Australia is tough, but
@griffith.edu.au's A/Prof Kerryn Pike is changing that by adapting training to help clinicians deliver evidence-based cognitive interventions for underserved communities. 🧠✨ 🔎
tinyurl.com/ey64372j
#ADNeT_Australia #DementiaAustralia

It was great to talk about stress mindset this morning on the ABC Radio National Life Matters show at the ABC Brisbane studios in South Bank. Listen at: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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How can suicide prevention focus on what really matters to each person? @griffith.edu.au's A/Prof Jacinta Hawgood chatted with Tony Pisani from SafeSide Prevention about how the STARS protocol shifts the focus from professional assumptions to client-led care. 🎙️ 🎧 👇https://tinyurl.com/bddhye5d

And here's the photographic evidence!🙌🥳

🎉Congratulations Prof @kyrahamilton.bsky.social!🎉Attended Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Congress in San Francisco last week & elected to Fellowship in the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM)!🌟Great recognition of your outstanding contributions to behavioral medicine!👏#SBM
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