MULTICAST Kick-off 2023

Around seventy experts from the field of suicide prevention were present at the kick-off event of the MULTICAST project. The project tackles the prediction of suicidal thoughts and suicidal behavior and the development of innovative treatment methods. It is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and brings together leading international researchers. 

Among the speakers were Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Stark, Vice President for Research at the University of Zurich, Prof. Dr. Matthias Mehl from the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona, and Prof. Dr. Rory O`Connor from the Department of Psychology at the University of Glasgow, who brought their expertise and experience to push the MULTICAST project forward.

MULTICAST is a four-year interdisciplinary project carried out in collaboration between the Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, the Department of Psychology of the University of Zurich, the German Department of the University of Zurich, and the Grossman School of Medicine, USA. The project focuses, inter alia, on language in the context of suicidality and uses a multimodal prediction that draws on a wide variety of data sources. Findings from this project could help improve suicide prevention and offer affected people timely help. We hope for further successful gatherings and to exchange with experts in this important field of suicide prevention.