Author Details Population density and suicide in Scotland Cameron Stark1 MPH, Honorary senior lecturer, c.stark@abdn.ac.uk Paddy Hopkins2 MPH, Honorary research fellow, paddy.hopkins@hhb.scot.nhs.uk Diane Gibbs3 MSc, Statistician, diane.gibbs@isd.csa.scot.nhs.uk Alan Belbin4 MB, ChB, General practitioner, alan.belbin@gp55215.highland-hb.scot.nhs.uk Alistair Hay5 FRCPsych, Consultant psychiatrist, alistair.hay@hpct.scot.nhs.uk 1 Centre for Rural Health, University of Aberdeen, North Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom. 2 Centre for Rural Health, University of Aberdeen, North Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom. 3 Information Services, NHS National Services Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. 4 NHS Highland, Health Centre, Durness, Sutherland, Scotland, United Kingdom. 5 NHS Highland, New Craigs Hospital, Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom. Correspondence: C Stark, Centre for Rural Health, University of Aberdeen, Beechwood Business Park, North Inverness, IV3 2ED, Scotland  Author contribution: Cameron Stark: original concept, designed the project, wrote the first draft. Citation: Stark C, Hopkins P, Gibbs D, Belbin A, Hay A.  Population density and suicide in Scotland. Rural and Remote Health 7 (online), 2007: no. 672. Available from: http://www.rrh.org.au Received: 26 October 2006 Revised: 20 June 2007 Accepted: 18 July 2007