Speaker
Galit Geulayov
Mental health epidemiologist, University of Oxford
Biography
Dr. Galit Geulayov is a mental health epidemiologist researching self-harm and suicide across the life course. With partners in Australia and in the UK, Galit investigates the impact of parental self-harm on offspring psychosocial and cognitive outcomes in early life. Galit is also developing a machine learning based tool for identifying self-harm in Electronic Health Records.
Galit is the self-harm research lead in the OxWell School and, within this study, Galit is exploring help-seeking behaviour following self-harm, trends in self-harm over time and self-harm in primary school children.
Previously, Galit acted as the data curator of the Multicentre Study Self-harm in England and data analyst. This study involves collecting information on individuals who present to hospitals following self-harm. Galit studied trends in self-harm over time and the relationship between socio-economic and clinical characteristics with clinical care and mortality