Paul Corcoran is Senior Lecturer in Perinatal Epidemiology with the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre, based in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and with the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. Paul was Deputy Director of the National Suicide Research Foundation Ireland, where he worked since the Foundation was established in 1994, and was Adjunct Senior Lecturer with the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. Paul’s degrees include a BSc. in Statistics and Computer Science, a Master’s degree in Statistics and a PhD. in Epidemiology, all obtained at UCC. He has more than 170 peer-reviewed scientific publications and has contributed chapters to international texts on the epidemiology of suicidal behaviour. He was a member of the writing group of "Reach Out", Ireland’s National Strategy for Action on Suicide Prevention. For the academic year 2008/2009, he was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oviedo in Spain. Paul is also Chair of the International Association for Suicide Prevention Special Interest Group on National Systems for Certifying Suicide Deaths.

Perinatal epidemiology; Health information systems; Suicidal behaviour epidemiology