Holly Wilcox, MA, PhD
Highlights
Languages
- English
Gender
FemaleJohns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Holly Wilcox
Background
Holly Wilcox is a professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with joint appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management as well as the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Education. Dr. Wilcox uses research to advance public health approaches to suicide prevention, including policies, early intervention and chain-of-care approaches. She helped establish a multidisciplinary research group on suicide prevention at Johns Hopkins that has been awarded the Team Science Award from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.
Wilcox serves as president of the International Academy of Suicide Research and on the Scientific Council of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. She is co-chair of the Suicide Prevention Task Group of the National Network of Depression Centers, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) network of 28 leading clinical and academic Centers of Excellence in the U.S. working to transform the field of depressive illnesses and related mood disorders. Wilcox is an affiliate investigator with the Centre of Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention of the Black Dog Institute in Australia. She teaches a course (Suicide As a Public Health Problem) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and has published extensively on the epidemiology, etiology and prevention of suicidal behaviors.
Recent News Articles and Media Coverage
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Investigating the Why of Suicide, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, May 2023
Window of Opportunity: Addressing Teen Suicide Starts in Childhood, Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health, Summer 2019
NIH Panel Unveils New Plan to Stop Youth Suicide, Medscape, October 2016
Additional Academic Titles
Joint Appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Contact for Research Inquiries
Phone: (410) 502-0629
hwilcox1@jhmi.edu
Research Interests
Suicide Prevention
Google Scholar
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Selected Publications
DeVylder JE, Ryan TC, Cwik M, Wilson ME, Jay S, Nestadt PS, Goldstein M, Wilcox HC. Assessment of Selective and Universal Screening for Suicide Risk in a Pediatric Emergency Department. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Oct 2;2(10):e1914070. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.14070. PMID: 31651971; PMCID: PMC6822088.
Wilcox HC, Kellam SG, Brown CH, Poduska JM, Ialongo NS, Wang W, Anthony JC. The impact of two universal randomized first- and second-grade classroom interventions on young adult suicide ideation and attempts. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2008 Jun 1;95 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S60-73. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2008.01.005. Epub 2008 Mar 7. PMID: 18329189; PMCID: PMC2637412.
Wilcox HC, Kharrazi H, Wilson RF, Musci RJ, Susukida R, Gharghabi F, Zhang A, Wissow L, Robinson KA. Data Linkage Strategies to Advance Youth Suicide Prevention: A Systematic Review for a National Institutes of Health Pathways to Prevention Workshop. Ann Intern Med. 2016 Dec 6;165(11):779-785. doi: 10.7326/M16-1281. Epub 2016 Oct 4. PMID: 27699389.
Wilcox HC, Pas E, Murray S, Kahn G, DeVinney A, Bhakta S, Rosenbaum L, Hart LM. Effectiveness of teen Mental Health First Aid in Improving Teen-to-Teen Support Among American Adolescents. J Sch Health. 2023 Jul 9. doi: 10.1111/josh.13364. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37424234.
Wilcox HC, Storr CL, Breslau N. Posttraumatic stress disorder and suicide attempts in a community sample of urban american young adults. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2009 Mar;66(3):305-11. doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2008.557. PMID: 19255380; PMCID: PMC6003890.