The Hong Kong Jockey Club Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention (CSRP) leads research into the causes and prevention of suicide and self-harm, and collaborates with local and international partners to promote the Public Health Approach to suicide prevention and mental health promotion. CSRP recognises that tackling suicide problem requires an individualised approach to supporting those at high risk, selective interventions for those sub-groups with higher risk than average, and also community wide efforts that address conditions associated with suicidal tendencies and that improve societal wellbeing.

The Centre was founded in 2002, and is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. In addition to carrying out research and advocacy, the Centre also coordinates training and interventions to promote good mental health in the community. It is Hong Kong’s principle suicide surveillance centre, monitoring self-harm and suicide trends and providing accurate information to the media and policymakers.

The scope of CSRP’s work is not limited to crisis intervention, but also includes broadly reducing risk factors for suicide (e.g. depression, poverty, drug abuse, etc.) and enhancing protective factors (e.g. social support, positive psychology, altruistic giving, etc.).

The Centre is made up of a multi-disciplinary team of researchers and practitioners with interests including public health, psychology, social work, social policy, population control, education, media studies, cultural studies, and data sciences. The Centre is regularly consulted by local and international organisations as an authority on suicide prevention and mental health promotion.

Website: http://csrp.hku.hk
Email: csrp@hku.hk
Tel: 2831 5232
Fax: 2549 7161