Dr. Runsen Chen is an Associate Professor at the Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University. He received his DPhil in Psychiatry from the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the epidemiology, neurobiology, and innovative approaches to risk identification, prevention, and intervention for self-harm and suicide.

Dr. Chen’s work has revealed the biological and genetic underpinnings of self-injurious and suicidal behaviors through large-scale genetic and neuroimaging studies, and he has developed tools to detect suicide risk using speech-based language models and wearable devices.

He leads several large randomised controlled trials, including the China Life Gatekeeper Suicide Prevention Intervention Study, universal school-based prevention trials targeting non-suicidal self-injury, and integrated interventions across families, schools, communities, and healthcare systems to prevent adolescent suicide.

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