Holly C. Wilcox, PhD
Director & Founder, Johns Hopkins Center for Suicide Prevention; Professor, Department of Mental Health
Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Dr. Holly Wilcox is the Founding Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Suicide Prevention, the first center for suicide prevention housed within a school of public health. Her research advances public health approaches to suicide prevention, including early intervention, policy, and the development of continuous, connected systems of support.
She teaches the Bloomberg School's Suicide as a Public Health Problem course — a recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from 2016 through 2026 — and helped establish the multidisciplinary research group that became the Center. She serves on the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's National Board and Scientific Council, is past President of the International Academy of Suicide Research.
In 2026, Dr. Wilcox received the AFSP Annual Research Award at the 37th Annual Lifesavers Gala in New York.