The Rise of Suicide Attempts Among Black Youth:
Are We Missing the Signs?
May 4th & 6th, 2022
Dr. Lindsey will be speaking at Sacred Heart Schools in Atherton, CA, as well as at Stanford Neurosurgery's Grand Rounds. Please see below for details on both of his talks.
The Rise of Suicide Attempts Among Black Youth: Are We Missing the Signs?
Speaker: Michael Lindsey, PhD, MSW, MPH
Dean, Silver School of Social Work, New York University
Date: May 6, 2022
Time: 7:00 AM Pacific Time
Location: Neurosurgery Grand Rounds (in person) CAM Grand Rounds Room (Room 125).
Lecture will also be streamed online.
Biography:
Dr. Michael A. Lindsey is a noted scholar in the fields of child and adolescent mental health, as well as a leader in the search for knowledge and solutions to generational poverty and inequality. Recently, New York University (NYU) named Dr. Lindsey the new dean of the Silver School of Social Work. He is also the Executive Director of the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University (NYU), the Constance and Martin Silver Professor of Poverty Studies at NYU Silver School of Social Work, and an Aspen Health Innovators Fellow. He also leads a university-wide Strategies to Reduce Inequality initiative from the NYU McSilver Institute. Additionally, he leads the working group of experts supporting the Congressional Black Caucus Emergency Taskforce on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health, which created the report Ring the Alarm: The Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America. Learn more