Penelope Hasking National Suicide Prevention Conference 2025

Penelope Hasking

Professor Penelope Hasking’s work focuses on mental health in adolescents and young adults. She is particularly interested in the experience of self-injury, and is Past President of the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury. In related work Prof Hasking is leading the Australian arm of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Mental Health Surveys – International College Student Initiative, which seeks to collect cross-national data on mental health of university students, identifying unmet needs and linking students with appropriate mental health services. She is the Founder and Managing Director of COMPAS, a not-for-profit company that provides services, training, and research related to suicide prevention.

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