Professor Jane Pirkis is the Director of the Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing at the University of Melbourne. She has a background in psychology and epidemiology, and has worked in the suicide prevention field for around 25 years. She has a particular interest in reporting and portrayal of suicide in news and entertainment media. Recently, she has conducted a number of studies considering how media-based interventions might be used as a force for good in suicide prevention. She is a past Vice President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP), and was a founding co-Chair of IASP’s Suicide and the Media Special Interest Group. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Crisis. She was the recipient of the IASP Stengel Award for Outstanding Research in the Field of Suicide Prevention (2019), the University of Melbourne’s Marles Medal (2021) and the University of Tasmania’s Distinguished Alumni Award (2017).