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Annette Erlangsen is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and medicine, with significant contributions in subfields including clinical psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, psychiatry and mental health, and emergency medicine.

The scholar's work is notably concentrated in topics such as suicide and self-harm studies, mental health treatment and access, grief, bereavement and mental health, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, homicide, infanticide and child abuse, and migration, health and trauma.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Erlangsen include:

  • Merete Nordentoft (45 publications)
  • Trine Madsen (23 publications)
  • Keith Hawton (14 publications)
  • Carsten Hjorthøj (12 publications)
  • Michael E. Benros (10 publications)

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Archives of Suicide Research (6 publications)
  • The British Journal of Psychiatry (5 publications)
  • Psychological Medicine (4 publications)
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (3 publications)
  • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (3 publications)

Annette Erlangsen's recent papers include:

  • "Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries," 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Safety planning-type interventions for suicide prevention: meta-analysis," 2021, The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Suicide numbers during the first 9-15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends: An interrupted time series analysis in 33 countries," 2022, EClinicalMedicine
  • "Assessment of Suicidal Behaviors Among Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Denmark," 2021, JAMA Network Open

In addition to journal articles, the researcher has contributed to book publications, including "Prevention of suicide and suicide attempts in the Nordic countries," published by TemaNord in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    David Gunnell;Louis Appleby;Ella Arensman;Keith Hawton

  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries.

    Jane Pirkis;Ann John;Sangsoo Shin;Marcos DelPozo-Banos

  • A comprehensive analysis of mortality-related health metrics associated with mental disorders: a nationwide, register-based cohort study

    Oleguer Plana-Ripoll;Carsten Bøcker Pedersen;Carsten Bøcker Pedersen;Esben Agerbo;Esben Agerbo;Yan Holtz

  • Effects of suicide bereavement on mental health and suicide risk

    Alexandra Pitman;David Osborn;Michael King;Annette Erlangsen

  • A systematic review of physical illness, functional disability, and suicidal behaviour among older adults

    Madeleine Mellqvist Fässberg;Gary Cheung;Silvia Sara Canetto;Annette Erlangsen

  • A Systematic Review of Elderly Suicide Prevention Programs

    Sylvie Lapierre;Annette Erlangsen;Margda Waern;Diego De Leo

  • A systematic review of social factors and suicidal behavior in older adulthood

    Madeleine Mellqvist Fässberg;Kimberly A van Orden;Paul Duberstein;Annette Erlangsen

  • Psychiatric disorders and mortality among people in homeless shelters in Denmark: a nationwide register-based cohort study

    Sandra Feodor Nielsen;Carsten Rygaard Hjorthøj;Annette Erlangsen;Annette Erlangsen;Merete Nordentoft

  • Association between alcohol and substance use disorders and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and unipolar depression: a nationwide, prospective, register-based study

    Carsten Hjorthøj;Carsten Hjorthøj;Marie Louise Drivsholm Østergaard;Marie Louise Drivsholm Østergaard;Michael Eriksen Benros;Michael Eriksen Benros;Nanna Gilliam Toftdahl;Nanna Gilliam Toftdahl

  • Loss of partner and suicide risks among oldest old: a population-based register study

    Annette Erlangsen;Bernard Jeune;Unni Bille-Brahe;James W. Vaupel

  • Parents bereaved by offspring suicide: a population-based longitudinal case-control study

    James M. Bolton;Wendy Au;William D. Leslie;Patricia J. Martens

  • Suicide numbers during the first 9-15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends: An interrupted time series analysis in 33 countries

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  • Safety planning-type interventions for suicide prevention: meta-analysis

    Chani Nuij;Wouter van Ballegooijen;Derek de Beurs;Dilfa Juniar

  • Danish nationwide registers for public health and health-related research.

    Annette Erlangsen;Izabela Fedyszyn

  • Association Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Risk of Suicide.

    Trine Madsen;Annette Erlangsen;Sonja Orlovska;Ramy Mofaddy

  • Physical diseases as predictors of suicide in older adults: a nationwide, register-based cohort study

    Annette Erlangsen;Elsebeth Stenager;Yeates Conwell

  • Cause-specific life-years lost in people with mental disorders: a nationwide, register-based cohort study

    Annette Erlangsen;Per Kragh Andersen;Anita Toender;Anita Toender;Thomas Munk Laursen;Thomas Munk Laursen

  • Association Between Spousal Suicide and Mental, Physical, and Social Health Outcomes: A Longitudinal and Nationwide Register-Based Study

    Annette Erlangsen;Bo Runeson;James M. Bolton;Holly C. Wilcox

  • Hospital-Diagnosed Dementia and Suicide: A Longitudinal Study Using Prospective, Nationwide Register Data

    Annette Erlangsen;Annette Erlangsen;Steven H. Zarit;Yeates Conwell

  • Genetics of suicide attempts in individuals with and without mental disorders: a population-based genome-wide association study.

    Annette Erlangsen;Vivek Appadurai;Vivek Appadurai;Yunpeng Wang;Yunpeng Wang;Gustavo Turecki

  • Suicide rates in five-year age-bands after the age of 60 years: the international landscape†

    Ajit Kumar Shah;Ravi Bhat;Sofia Zarate-Escudero;Diego DeLeo;Diego DeLeo

  • Dissecting the shared genetic architecture of suicide attempt, psychiatric disorders and known risk factors

    Niamh Mullins;Jooeun Kang;Adrian I Campos;Adrian I Campos;Jonathan R I Coleman;Jonathan R I Coleman

Frequent Co-Authors

Merete Nordentoft
Merete Nordentoft University of Copenhagen
Esben Agerbo
Esben Agerbo Aarhus University
Ping Qin
Ping Qin University of Oslo
Anders D. Børglum
Anders D. Børglum Aarhus University
Brian Draper
Brian Draper University of New South Wales
Ad J. F. M. Kerkhof
Ad J. F. M. Kerkhof Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Steven H. Zarit
Steven H. Zarit Pennsylvania State University
Rory C. O'Connor
Rory C. O'Connor University of Glasgow
Per Hoffmann
Per Hoffmann University of Bonn
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital

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