Rate My Professor Katie McGill

McGill's academic interests center on suicide prevention research, encompassing treatment and intervention trials, epidemiological and public health data analysis, assessment and service evaluations, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and implementation science. She works closely with Professor Greg Carter on initiatives such as investigating the efficacy of the Newcastle Way Back Support Service, evaluating the NSW Accredited Persons program, and conducting systematic reviews on suicide risk assessment instruments and clinician judgements. Select key publications are "Global prevalence of psychosocial assessment following hospital-treated self-harm: systematic review and meta-analysis" (Witt K et al., 2024, BJPsych Open), "Effectiveness of Brief Contact Interventions for Bereavement: A Systematic Review" (McGill K et al., 2024, Omega-Journal of Death and Dying), "A Randomized Controlled Trial of an SMS-Based Brief Contact Intervention for People Bereaved by Suicide" (McGill K et al., 2025, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior), "Hospital-treated deliberate self-poisoning patients: Drug-induced delirium and clinical outcomes" (Gale L et al., 2022, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry), and "Predicting suicidal behaviours using clinical instruments: systematic review and meta-analysis of positive predictive values for risk scales" (McGill K et al., 2018, The British Journal of Psychiatry). She has supervised professional doctorates and master's theses on family psychoeducation for depressive disorders and clinicians' attitudes towards caring for individuals with depression. Among her honors is a PhD scholarship from Suicide Prevention Australia and Regional Australia Bank.