Call out: Expertise in suicide prevention

This call out closes on March 31, 2025.

Winter and spring 2025

Currently open to:

Government of Canada (GoC) suicide prevention experts
Suicide prevention experts outside of the Government of Canada

Expert Roster for suicide prevention

The Public Health Agency of Canada is creating a roster of suicide prevention experts that can be called upon for expert advice, when needed, to complement internal science expertise. The Expert Roster for the Public Health Agency of Canada will ensure that experts are engaged through a transparent process that considers their skills and Canada's diversity in terms of gender, ethnicity, regions, Indigenous groups, racialized communities and official languages.

This pan-Canadian call out will establish a roster of suicide prevention experts across a range of disciplines and perspectives. This roster will be used to identify experts with relevant backgrounds to provide advice to the Agency including the establishment of a Suicide Prevention Science Advisory Table.

Why suicide prevention

Suicide is a significant public health issue that can affect people of all ages and backgrounds. There is no single cause that predicts, explains or prevents suicide and related behaviours. Suicide is the result of a dynamic interplay of multiple risk and protective factors. Effective suicide prevention relies on applying the latest available evidence and knowledge in designing and implementing interventions, policies and programs.

On May 31, 2024, the Government of Canada released the first National Suicide Prevention Action Plan (Action Plan) to strengthen a collective response to suicide in Canada. The Action Plan commits to the establishment of a Suicide Prevention Science Advisory Table to support decision making, priority-setting, and the integration of diverse expertise into the implementation of the Action Plan.

Expertise sought

For the purposes of establishing the Expert Roster for the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Agency is seeking submissions from people with a minimum of 10 years' experience working in suicide prevention, in one or more of the listed primary specializations (listed alphabetically below, not in order of importance).

Given the complex and intersectional nature of suicide and suicide prevention, it may be possible that all primary areas of specialization for suicide prevention may not be listed below. If you have a demonstrable expertise in any other area of suicide prevention, you're encouraged to register your expertise under the "other" category.

Primary specializations

Chronic diseases and conditions
Community-based interventions
Epidemiology and surveillance in public health
Equity, human rights and gender in public health
Ethics
Health behaviour and risk
Health disparities and health equity
Health economics
Health informatics
Health law
Human medicine
Indigenous health
Maternal and child health
Mental health
Occupational safety and health
People with lived or living experience
Psychology
Public health policy, economics, planning and partnerships
Social determinants of health
Social science
Substance use and related harms
Other

How to apply

Those meeting the experience criteria are invited to complete the Government of Canada (GC) form, provided in the link below. It is a secure, fillable and accessible form. The submission process takes approximately 10 to 15 minutes to complete.

You can request access to your information at any time to verify or update content. After submitting the GC form, you will receive an email containing instructions for submitting your CV and a Declaration of Affiliations and Interests.

Important notes before getting started

Once a submission is started, it needs to be completed in its entirety. There is no option to save. The following information will be needed for your submission:

Personal information (name, address, contact information)
Professional competencies (areas of expertise and research, including years of experience)
Education
Employment/affiliations
CV
Language skills
Demographic information for equity, diversity, and inclusion purposes
Declaration of Affiliations and Interests

Selection process

Your submission will be reviewed by the Agency's Suicide Prevention Division, in collaboration with the Office of the Chief Science Officer.

Expert selection will be at the Agency's discretion, taking into account the combined assessment of education, professional experience, research, publication record, teaching and other science-related activities, and considerations of equity, diversity and inclusion.

Profiles will be reviewed for completeness and alignment with the call out. You will be contacted should additional information be required, your advice is being sought or both.

Terms and conditions

Interested persons must declare any real, potential or apparent conflicts of interest by completing and submitting a Declaration of Affiliations and Interests form. All declarations will be re-verified if or when expert advice is sought.

Individuals must represent themselves in any submission and not submit as representatives of any organization, including governments, commercial industries, research entities, academia, civil society organizations, or any other institutions.

The Agency reserves the right to accept or reject any expression of interest, to annul the call out process and reject all submissions at any time without incurring any liability to the affected applicant or applicants and without any obligation to inform the affected applicant or applicants of the grounds for these actions.

Experts who complete a submission to the Expert Roster for the Public Health Agency of Canada are doing so on a voluntary basis without any remuneration.

Should your suitability be identified to provide expert advice on a topic other than that of this call out, it is presumed that you agree to be considered, contacted or both.

Questions

Should you need more information, refer to the expert roster initiative page. If you still have questions, contact suicideprevention@phac-aspc.gc.ca with the subject line "Call Out Expertise in Suicide Prevention".

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Date modified:: 2025-03-13

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