Google AI for Social Good Impact Challenge Grant: Using AI to code ambulance data for suicide surveillance.

Investigators: Professor Dan Lubman, Professor Wray Buntine & A/Prof Debbie Scott.

MARC Researches are the sole Australian recipients of a $1.21 million grant from Google to establish a world-first suicide monitoring system (2019-2022). Prof. Dan Lubman, Director of Turning Point and the Monash Addiction Research Centre, will lead the project with Prof. Wray Buntine (Faculty of Information Technology) and A/Prof Debbie Scott (Turning Point & MARC). There were over 2600 applicants across 119 countries, with 20 grants awarded worldwide.

The project will use AI to streamline coding of national suicide-related ambulance data. The resulting data will play a central role in informing public health prevention, policy and intervention, as well as identifying emerging trends, hidden populations and geographical hot spots for targeted responses relating to suicide.

Project partners

A collaboration between Turning Point, Eastern Health Clinical School,
MARC and the Faculty of Information Technology.