Madelyn Gould
Madelyn Gould is the Irving Philips Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry and a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is also an epidemiologist with a focus on youth suicide.
Education and training
Gould earned a Master of Public Health with a focus on Epidemiology in 1976 from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, followed by a PhD in Epidemiology from the Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a fellowship at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.Gould received a Master of Arts degree from Princeton in 1974 and a Bachelor of Science degree from Brooklyn College in 1972.
Career
Gould has evaluated the National Suicide Prevention Hotline founded by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.Awards and honors
- Shneidman Award for Research, American Association of Suicidology, 1991
Selected publications
- Forum on Global Violence Prevention; Board on Global Health; Institute of Medicine; National Research Council. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary. Washington : National Academies Press ; 2013 Feb 6. II.4, THE CONTAGION OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK207262/