Executive Director, Office of Suicide Prevention

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) is a world-renowned agency with a long tradition of protecting and promoting health in the nation’s most culturally and linguistically diverse city. Our 7,000-plus team members bring an extraordinary array of languages, cultures, and experiences to bear on the work of public health. Our diversity fuels creativity because al perspectives are heard and valued.

DOHMH aims to improve the health outcomes of all New Yorkers by centering persistent racial inequities and promotion of social justice at the core of its work. The Division of Mental Hygiene of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is responsible for policy, programs and provide oversight related to mental health, alcohol and drug use prevention care and treatment and developmental delays and disabilities.

Strategic and Executive Leadership

• Lead development and implementation of a citywide suicide prevention strategy and establish citywide priorities for the Office.
• Direct the Office’s operations, staffing, budget, performance, and organizational development.
• Supervise senior leadership and ensure effective coordination across the Office’s strategic, research, surveillance, partnership, and prevention functions.
• Establish goals, performance measures, and accountability mechanisms to advance population-level suicide prevention.
• Ensure the Office operates in close collaboration with critical interagency partners that hold specific expertise and responsibilities related to monitoring and addressing population-level suicide and injury/violence prevention trends (e.g., Office of Vital Statistics and Division of Environmental Health).

Research, Surveillance, and Scientific Strategy

• Provide executive oversight of the Office’s epidemiologic, surveillance, research, and evaluation functions and infrastructure.
• Set research and data priorities in alignment with Divisional goals, citywide suicide prevention planning, and emerging public health needs.
• Guide the development and use of a comprehensive suicide surveillance strategy, research initiatives, data resources, and evaluation activities.
• Ensure that emerging disparities, geographic patterns, clusters, and populations experiencing elevated suicide risk are identified and addressed.
• Lead coordination with divisional bureaus and cross-agency partners, academic institutions, healthcare systems, and other stakeholders to advance large-scale research and prevention initiatives.
• Ensure research and surveillance findings are translated into actionable recommendations for policy, programs, and systems improvement.

Policy and Government Relations

• Advise Divisional leadership on suicide prevention policy, legislation, regulation, and emerging issues.
• Advance policy recommendations informed by research, surveillance, and public health priorities.
• In collaboration with External Affairs, coordinate with City agencies, elected officials, and state and federal partners on shared priorities; represent the Department in governmental and interagency forums related to suicide prevention.

Cross-Sector Leadership and Partnerships

• Lead a coordinated, citywide approach to suicide prevention across healthcare, behavioral health, public safety, education, housing, planning, philanthropy, academia, and community sectors.
• Coordinate collaborative research initiatives addressing priority questions identified through surveillance.
• Establish and maintain strategic partnerships that advance coordinated suicide prevention priorities.
• Align public and private investments and facilitate shared accountability across participating sectors.
• Promote integration of suicide prevention into systems and policies beyond the traditional behavioral health sector.

Resource Development and Accountability

• Develop strategies to sustain and expand resources supporting the Office’s priorities.
• Oversee strategic funding initiatives, grant development, and partnership agreements.
• Monitor implementation of the City’s suicide prevention strategy and report on progress, emerging trends, and strategic priorities to Department leadership.
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