Child-, and adolescent psychiatrist and Psychiatrist. DSc of the Hungarian Academi of Sciences. Professor and Chair of the Department of Developmental and Clinical Child Psychology of Institute Psychology Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. She is the head and tutor of the Developmental and Clinical Child Psychology Program at the Doctoral Schools of Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest and tutor of the Semmelweis University, Budapest. She is the president of the Hungarian Psychiatric Association and the chair of the Child Psychiatry Section of the European Psychiatric Association. Her main interests are adolescent suicide prevention, ADHD and subthreshold mental disorders, quality of life. She is the first author of several peer-reviewed papers. She is the editor of a text-book on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, published both in Hungarian and in English. She was the Hungarian partner Principal Investigator of three EU sponsored collaborative projects and several local projects on youth mental health.

Anna Baran, MD, PhD, MBA, psychiatrist, certified suicidologist and suicide researcher. International project coordinator of the ELLIPSE grant (E-Lifelong Learning In Prevention of Suicide in Europe) co-funded by the ERASMUS+ programme of the European Union (www.e-llipse.com) (2019-2022). The ELLIPSE-project aims to develop an online educational course in suicide prevention for university students in 5 European countries (Poland, Sweden, Norway, Austria and Hungary), and guidelines for education in suicide prevention in Europe. AB is a chairperson of the Media Group of the Working Group for Suicide and Depression Prevention at Public Health Council Ministry of Health, Poland. She actively participates in the works of the International COVID-19 Suicide Prevention Research Collaboration (ICSPRC). She is a member of the International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP) and EPA Section of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention. A co-author of suicide prevention guides for media professionals, people who speak with media, internet moderators and administrators, a postvention guide for schools, and the regional suicide prevention program for the Region of Blekinge (Sweden) and guidelines for the management of suicide risk in patients in the psychiatric healthcare in the Södermanland Region (Sweden).