About: Annette Beautrais

Annette Louise Beautrais is a New Zealand suicidologist. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, where she formerly directed the prior to leaving in 2009 because some of her grant applications for a research project and a suicide coordinator at Canterbury were rejected. She is also affiliated with the University of Canterbury School of Health Sciences and is a senior research fellow at the University of Auckland's South Auckland Clinical School. She is also the World Health Organization's leader on suicide prevention strategy, and was the chair of two different symposia at the International Association for Suicide Prevention's 2015 conference in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is also one of two co-chairs of the International Association for Suicide Prev