Madelyn Gould

Madelyn Gould is the Irving Philips Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry and a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is also an epidemiologist with a focus on youth suicide.

Education and training

Gould earned a Master of Public Health (MPH) with a focus on Epidemiology in 1976 from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, followed by a PhD in Epidemiology (1980) from the Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a fellowship (1979) at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Gould received a Master of Arts degree from Princeton in 1974 and a Bachelor of Science degree from Brooklyn College in 1972.

Career

Gould has evaluated the National Suicide Prevention Hotline founded by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Awards and honors

• Shneidman Award for Research, American Association of Suicidology (AAS), 1991

Selected publications

• Forum on Global Violence Prevention; Board on Global Health; Institute of Medicine; National Research Council. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2013 Feb 6. II.4, THE CONTAGION OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK207262/

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