Mark Kaplan

Mark Kaplan is a professor of social welfare in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and an expert on suicide, which is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. As a suicidologist with more than 20 years of experience, Kaplan approaches the study and treatment of suicide as an important public health matter and analyzes population data to understand risk factors particularly among veterans, seniors and older vulnerable populations.

Kaplan has contributed to state and federal suicide prevention initiatives and he has testified before the Senate Special Committee on Aging at its hearing on veterans’ health and was a member of the Expert Panel on the Veterans Administration Blue Ribbon Work Group on Suicide Prevention in the Veteran Population. He serves as a scientific adviser to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Reporters can contact Mark Kaplan via email.