Simon Tatz

Simon Tatz is the former Director of Public Health for the Australian Medical Association (AMA); Director of Communications, Mental Health Australia; Director of Policy, Mental Health Victoria; Chief of Staff to Minister for Higher Education and Senior Health Advisor, Australian Greens. He co-authored The Sealed Box of Suicide: The Contexts of Self-Death [Springer Academic].

Simon Tatz's recent articles

Australian media persists with a misguided and tragically ineffectual strategy – the way to prevent suicide is not to talk about it

Australian media persists with a misguided and tragically ineffectual strategy – the way to prevent suicide is not to talk about it

Statistics are cold-hearted methods to gauge the success of suicide prevention strategies, yet they are the only tool available to measure the number of Australians who take their lives each year.