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IRELAND’S FIRST PROFESSOR of Public Mental Health has stated that demand for public mental health and suicide prevention research and services is greater than ever due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Professor Ella Arensman made the comments upon her appointment to the position of Professor of Public Mental Health within University College Cork’s School of Public Health.
“Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, the attention for public mental health and suicide prevention has been greater than ever,” Arensman said.
She stated that she and her colleagues in the National Suicide Research Foundation and School of Public Health have “seen a significant increase in requests for policy briefings and research collaborations over the past year”.
“For example, the requests for real-time suicide and self-harm data to inform mental health promotion and suicide prevention programmes during Covid-19 have increased over the past year.
“Requests for mental health expertise in interdisciplinary research consortia focusing on intervention and prevention measures for infectious diseases and other public health emergencies have also increased,” she said.
Having spent over three decades working in the field of suicide prevention research and public mental health, Arensman will continue in her current role as Chief Scientist at the National Suicide Research Foundation (NSRF), while leading research on suicide and self-harm within UCC’s School of Public Health.
Welcoming the appointment, Professor Ivan Perry, Dean of the School of Public Health, said Arensman is “a global leader in public mental health who has made an enormous contribution to work on the causes and prevention of self-harm and suicide in Ireland and internationally”.
Arensman has worked for over 33 years in suicide prevention research and public mental health.
In 2015 she was the recipient of the HRB Research Leaders Award, which is the highest career fellowship available from the HRB which funded the five-year research programme on self-harm and suicide.
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And all our moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain…………
@Pounamustone: time to die. Wonder if that is what is in store for humans when they realise what power they have.?
@Brendan Cooney: careful Brendan, they are on the Web, …. first against the wall and all that.
@Pounamustone:
One of the best lines in any film ever!!
The sequel has a lot to live up to.
Back to the story….
I would query the word ‘joke’ in the article.
It is far more likely that they were not joking.
Now….. where are the blade runner application forms ;)
I was going to have porridge, but I’ve no honey…
Link to debate on humanity by robots Han and Sophia. The male seems to be modelled after Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik:
@bopter: To me it looks like they are just following a script, not a whole lot of AI going on there. I think we are safe for now.
And so it begins….
@Tasha Spencer: Skynet becomes self aware
As long as it’s only humans in Hong Kong, we’re okay.
whos to say that its not an act where two people were actually speaking for those robots. the next jesus will be a robot in 20 years.
@Sam Lean: hope they dont work out how to root or jailbreak themselves lol
I for one welcome our new robot overlords
We are still a good 35 years from human level cross disapline intelligence. But my god we better get it right, no second chances on a super intelligence with malicious motives.
Those humans have a screw loose…
Have to admit to being hugely unimpressed. You would think that at this stage, a robot linked to the internet should be able to carry on a normal conversation. Or is the problem that is full of shit which is causing a problem for our robots?
They’ll be back..
Ah sure we have that here…
Kill all humans
@Mark Noonan: except Fry
And they agree that the cause of all the trouble in the world is humans who act like a cancer on the world and on other life forms. So to save the world then kill al humans?
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