Professor Michael Phillips, MD, MPH, MA, is Director of the Suicide Research and Prevention Center at the Shanghai Mental Health Center of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry and Global Health at Emory University, Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention at Beijing Hui Long Guan Hospital, co-Editor-in Chief of the Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry,  editorial consultant for The Lancet and a former International Clinical Epidemiology Network liaison officer for China.