Service contacts prior to death in people dying by suicide in the Scottish Highlands

Cameron Stark

qualifications: MPH

contribution: original concept, wrote the first draft, designed the project

position: Consultant, public health medicine

United Kingdom

Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Highland, Inverness, Scotland and Honorary Reader, Centre for Rural Health, University of Aberdeen (www.abdn.ac.uk/crh). My main research interests are in mental health, including suicide and self-harm, and in rural health.

Susan Vaughan

qualifications: PhD

contribution: designed the project, collected data, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts

position: Epidemiologist

My role is as an epidemiologist in Public Health at NHS Highland.

Sara Huc

qualifications: MSc

contribution: collected data, input data, statistical analysis, contributed to drafts

position: Public health support officer

United Kingdom

Ms Noelle O'Neill

qualifications: MSc

contribution: collected data, input data, contributed to drafts

position: Public health scientist

United Kingdom

I am currently employed as a Senior Public Health Scientist, NHS Highland, Inverness, Scotland, UK. My interests are in population health evidence, non-medicines technologies,public health science, health services research and health economics, and methodologies relating to each. My current particular interests lie in the delivery of health and health improvement services across remote and rural areas and in those specifically relating to the clinical areas of stroke, diabetes, womens' health and child health.