The mission of SPRINT is to serve as a national resource that accelerates VA suicide prevention research to improve care and prevent Veteran suicide. SPRINT supports VA as a Learning Health System by collecting and disseminating up-to-date information about active projects, state of the evidence, sources of data, and partner priorities to facilitate synergies and reduce duplications of effort; supports a collaborative network of researchers and partners dedicated to advancing high-quality, high-impact suicide prevention research; works with VA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) and other partners and stakeholders to promote a focused suicide prevention research agenda; collaborates with ORD and partners to facilitate innovative research that addresses high priority areas; and seeks to develop common data infrastructure and leverage shared knowledge to facilitate translation and implementation of suicide prevention research findings into policy and practice.

The Principal Investigators of SPRINT are:

• Steven Dobscha, MD (Corresponding PI, HSRD), VA Portland Health Care System; HSRD Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC); Communications and Priorities
• Brian Marx, PhD (Corresponding PI, CSRD), VA Boston Healthcare System, National Center for PTSD; Data Access and Curation
• Marianne Goodman, MD, James J Peters VA Medical Center, VISN 2 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC); Methods and Clinical Trials
• Mary Bollinger, PhD, VA Central Arkansas Healthcare System (VACAHS), Community Engagement
• Richard Owen, MD, VA Central Arkansas Healthcare System (VACAHS), Community Engagement
• Mark Ilgen, PhD, VA Ann Arbor, Center for Clinical Management (CCMR); Measurement and Tools Development
• Alejandro Interian, PhD, VA New Jersey Healthcare System; Education and Professional Development
• Nathan Kimbrel, PhD, VA Durham Healthcare System, Mid-Atlantic MIRECC; Precision Medicine

SPRINT funded sites

SPRINT’s Partners include:

• VA Office of Suicide Prevention
• VA Office of Rural Health
• Rocky Mountain VA Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center
• VISN-2 Center for Excellence in Suicide Prevention
• VISN-6 Mid-Atlantic MIRECC
• South Central VA Health Care Network (VISN-16)
• VISN 2 MIRECC
• VA Evidence Synthesis Coordinating Center
• Behavioral Health Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI)
• National Center for PTSD
• National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans
• VA Caregiver Program
• VA Program Evaluation and Resource Center
• Harvard Medical School
• VA Causal/Harvard Causal Lab
• VA Boston Neuropsychiatric Translational Research Fellowship
• OHSU Gun Violence Prevention and Research Center
• UM Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention
• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
• Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
• NIH Suicide Prevention Research Program
• DoD Military Operational Medicine Research Program (MOMRP)