Our research team
We are dedicated to developing advertising to impact on Veteran suicide prevention actions
Effect of Mass Communication on Veteran Suicide Prevention: Help Seeking & Firearm Safety Behaviors
We are a collaborative team from academic institutions, public, private and non-profit agencies dedicated to using Veteran focus groups, feedback surveying processes and state of the art marketing techniques to build our Public Health Messaging program to prevent Veteran suicides.
The following are our manuscripts and presentations
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Medical College of Wisconsin
MCW/COMPREHENSIVE INJURY CENTER
Sara Kohlbeck, MPH
Project Team Role: Co-investigator/data analysis
Stephen Hargarten, MD
Psychiatry Department
Bertrand D. Berger, Ph.D., Psychologist, Principal Investigator
Michael McBride, M.D. Psychiatrist, Veteran Consultant & Focus Groups
Captain John D. Mason Veteran Peer Outreach Program
Mark Flower, Veteran Peer Outreach Specialist, Focus Group facilitator
Pete Glowinski & Peter Borucki, Veteran Peer Outreach Specialists
War Memorial Center, Milwaukee
Dan Buttery, President & CEO, Director of Marketing and Advertising
Jim Held, Creative Advertising, Graphic design
Mary Bridges, Creative Advertising
Jim DeKoch, Creative Advertising, Director, Video Production
Iheart Advertising Team
Gun Shop project of Wisconsin, State of National violent death reporting system
Wisconsin, Team lead for the Wisconsin VA’s Governor’s Challenge, State of Wis.,
Jean Papalia
Project Team Role: Firearm storage messaging, State of Wi statistics on Violent death data
Michael McBride, MD
Project Team Role: Focus groups/Message development/Veteran consultant
Denis Birgenheir, Ph.D.
Project Team Role: Message, survey & logic model development, dissemination plan