Theresa Lemke

At Karolinska Institutet, I work as a research assistant at the National Center for Suicide Research and Prevention (NASP). My employment is with Stockholm Healthcare Services (SLSO) in a research and development unit called CHIS (Center for health economics, informatics and healthcare research), to which NASP also belongs. 

I am interested in better understanding the relationship between sleep and mental health in adolescents and developing interventions to promote adolescents sleep, with the aim of generating benefits for their mental health and development. I am currently involved in a project with the aim of studying the feasibility and effectiveness ofdelaying school start times to increase adolescents sleep duration and promote their mental health and overall development.

Further, I work with a project on prevention of repeated self-harm through poisoning in young people, by providing their families with free lockablemedicine storage boxes. The goal of this project is to study the effects of this low-risk and low-cost intervention.

At NASP I am also involved in a project group that conducts activities related to disseminating information and knowledge about suicide to various target audiences, such as the general public, journalists, as well as governmental bodies and other organizations.