Congratulations to Jill Rabinowitz, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, on receiving a Notice of Award (NOA) for her grant titled ‘Investigating Suicide Risk and Protective Factors Among Economically Disadvantaged, Preteen Black Youth.’

Title: Investigating Suicide Risk and Protective Factors among Economically Disadvantaged, Preteen Black Youth
PIs: Drs. Jill Rabinowitz, Nicholas Ialongo (Hopkins), and Michael Lindsey (NYU)
Award amount (total costs): $1,864,761
Award duration: 9/16/2024-5/31/2028
Grant description: The proposed R01 seeks to characterize the epidemiology and course of suicide ideation and behavior among a socioeconomically disadvantaged, urban sample of Black preadolescents, and to identify factors that confer risk or protection for suicide ideation and behavior over time in this understudied population. The study will build on data collection that occurred as part of a randomized preventive intervention trial conducted in 48 schools with ~5,000 elementary school students (~90% of whom were socioeconomically disadvantaged Black youth).