Rate My Professor Gabrielle Jenkin

Jenkin led the process evaluation of the Multi-level Intervention for Suicide Prevention in New Zealand (MISP-NZ) and served as Principal Investigator on a University of Otago-funded project studying media discourse on suicide news reporting, with findings published as "News media coverage of stakeholder views on suicide and its reporting in New Zealand" (Crisis, 2020, with B.E. Slim and S. Collings). She is Co-Principal Investigator on the Suicide Mortality Review Feasibility Study funded by the Health Quality and Safety Commission on behalf of the Ministry of Health. Key publications include "‘How can you not be traumatised’: Experience of paramedics occupationally exposed to suicide" (Paramedicine, 2025, with R. Lopes de Lyra, S.K. McKenzie, and S. Every-Palmer); "Should menstrual cycle data be collected during suspected suicide autopsies?" (New Zealand Medical Journal, 2024, with A. Hoskin, S.K. McKenzie, and E.B. Cooney); "Preventing suicidal behaviours with a multilevel intervention: A cluster randomised controlled trial" (BMC Public Health, 2018, with S. Collings et al.); and "Contemporary issues in acute mental health facility design: insights from the Aotearoa-New Zealand experience" (Kotuitui, 2023). She supervises PhD students on topics including the impact of suicides on first responders, adolescent mental health services, and menstrual cycle effects on suicide.