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Orygen proudly congratulates Professor Jo Robinson on being appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) as part of the King’s Birthday honours.
Professor Robinson, Head of Suicide Research at Orygen, received the honour in recognition of “significant service to community health through suicide prevention awareness and support”.
Her work focuses on improving our knowledge about the best approaches to reduce suicide risk among young people. This includes developing and testing novel programs and interventions with at-risk young people across settings, and translating the research evidence into practice and policy.
Her work has a strong focus on the potential of social media platforms in suicide prevention. This includes the development of the #chatsafe guidelines, the first evidence-based best practice guidelines for safe peer-peer communication about suicide online.
Professor Robinson also has a keen interest in policy development and evaluation, she regularly advises government and has led the development of major policy reports. She is a member of the Self-Injury Advisory Group for Meta and was an advisory board member for the Oprah Winfrey production The Me You Can’t See.
She is vice president of the International Association for Suicide.
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