Dr. Goldman-Mellor's research focuses on identifying social, clinical, and economic determinants of mental health problems -- particularly suicidal behavior -- across the lifecourse, and on understanding excess morbidity and mortality among people suffering from mental disorder.
Much of her recent work uses linked population-based administrative datasets (e.g., emergency department data and death records) to examine these questions and to inform public mental health surveillance efforts. Populations she is particularly focused on include youths and pregnant and postpartum women.
Dr. Goldman-Mellor is currently working on NIH-funded research examining mortality and morbidity due to drugs, self-harm, and violence during pregnancy and the postpartum period. As a Fulbright Scholar during 2023, she used population-based Norwegian linked health and social register data to investigate how violent injury is associated with subsequent risk for non-fatal and fatal suicidal behavior as well as psychiatric disorder.
