David McDaid The National Suicide Prevention Conference 2024

David McDaid

David McDaid is Associate Professorial Research Fellow in Health Policy and Health Economics at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, Department of Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The primary focus of David’s work is on using economic arguments to support investment in mental health and wellbeing promotion, self-harm, suicide and mental illness prevention within and beyond the health sector and across the life course. This has included highlighting the role that economic circumstances can have on self-harm and suicide risk, as well as estimating the economic value of actions for suicide and self-harm prevention. He is involved in a wide range of work on mental health public health in the UK, Europe and globally. He has spoken extensively on these issues, published more than 350 peer reviewed outputs and advised many national governments and international agencies. This has included work to assess intersectoral actions to promote mental health and wellbeing for the World Health Organization, as well as reviewing mental health promotion and prevention policy and actions for the OECD.