A Center for Social Dynamics seminar presented by Sonja Swanson. 

Many current or promising strategies for suicide prevention are necessarily evaluated via observational studies. That is, it is not always feasible to conduct a randomized trial to estimate the effect of a given treatment, intervention, decision, policy, or law on suicide risk in a population.

This talk will focus on how rigor, transparency, and creativity can improve our causal inferences from observational data, and thereby ultimately improve our understanding of what strategies work for suicide prevention. Examples will be drawn from observational studies of lethal means access.