Annette has a broad background in mental health research which includes more than 30 years working in suicide research, prevention and education, in New Zealand and internationally.

She currently works in suicide prevention in South Canterbury, and is also seconded to provide psychosocial support to rural regions impacted by Covid, loss of tourism, staff shortages and weather events.

She has a wide range of interests in suicide prevention and wellbeing promotion but is especially interested in suicide prevention in men, workplace suicide prevention programmes, rural suicide prevention, suicide clusters and contagion, and, more generally, in implementing best practice, evidence-based suicide prevention programmes. She has a wide range of interests in suicide prevention and wellbeing promotion but is especially interested in suicide prevention in men, workplace suicide prevention programmes, rural suicide prevention, suicide clusters and contagion, and, more generally, in implementing best practice, evidence-based suicide prevention programmes.