Professor Kairi Kõlves works at the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention and is the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention, School of Applied Psychology at Griffith University. She has been working in suicide research and prevention over 25 years and has been involved in several national and international projects and has been an adviser to the World Health Organization. She is a member of several advisory committees (e.g., the WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Mental Health, Brain Health and Substance Use). Her work has been published in over 200 publications.