The mission of the jointly-HSR&D/CSR&D-funded SPRINT is to accelerate VA suicide prevention research to improve care and reduce suicidal thoughts and behaviors among Veterans. SPRINT serves as a national collaborative network of VHA researchers and operations partners, and seeks to maintain up-to-date information about VA suicide prevention research and operations projects, collaborate with VA’s Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention to identify research priorities, facilitate development of innovative research proposals though a planning award mechanism and field-based meetings, and foster professional development among suicide prevention researchers.

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); Information Management, Portfolio and Evidence Review
• Brian Marx, PhD (Corresponding PI, CSRD), VA Boston Healthcare System, National Center for PTSD; Precision Medicine
• Marianne Goodman, MD, James J Peters VA Medical Center, VISN 2 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC); Data, Methods and Clinical Trials
• Teresa Hudson, PhD, PharmD, VA Little Rock, HSRD Center for Mental Healthcare & Outcomes Research (CeMHOR); Community and Veteran Engagement and Implementation
• Mark Ilgen, PhD, VA Ann Arbor, Center for Clinical Management (CCMR); Education and Training
• Alejandro Interian, PhD, VA New Jersey Healthcare System; Education and Training
• Nathan Kimbrel, PhD, VA Durham Healthcare System, Mid-Atlantic MIRECC; Biomarkers

Sites currently receiving SPRINT funding

SPRINT’s Partners include:

• VHA Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
• Rocky Mountain VA Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center
• VISN-2 Center for Excellence in Suicide Prevention
• VISN-6 Mid-Atlantic MIRECC
• VA Evidence Synthesis Coordinating Center
• Quality Enhancement Research Initiative for Team Based Behavioral Health
• National Center for PTSD
• National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans
• VA LGBTQ Health Program
• VA Program Evaluation and Resource Center
• Harvard Medical School
• VA Causal/Harvard Causal Lab
• VA Boston Neuropsychiatric Translational Research Fellowship