Building A Public Health Approach to Preventing Suicides in China鈥檚 Scientific Community, with Cary Wu
The rising number of suicide cases in Chinese academia are not isolated incidents but rather reflect systemic issues within the academic and sociopolitical environment. In this seminar, Cary Wu will first provide an overview of recent advancements in creating a public health approach to suicide prevention. He will then share results from analyzing a unique database created through a systematic search and hand-coding of media reports on suicide cases within China鈥檚 scientific community over the past several decades. Finally, he will outline a public health framework specifically tailored to China鈥檚 scientific community.
Speaker Profile
Cary Wu (PhD, UBC) is an assistant professor of sociology at 91亚色. His research focuses on political culture, race and ethnicity, and health inequality. He has published widely on these topics and often shares his research with the public via national and international TV, radio, and newspaper forums including NPR, CBC, CTV, Washington Post, Toronto Star, 惭补肠濒别补苍鈥檚, and The Economist. He is currently working on a five-year (2022-2026) SSHRC Insight Grant research project to develop a political sociology of health (PSH) to study social and political trust as essential determinants of health.
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