14/05/2025
🧠💬 We are honored to announce Dr Anna Baran as a Keynote Speaker at the 25th International Congress of Young Medical Scientists (ICYMS) 💡🌍
Dr Anna Baran is a medical doctor, suicidologist, psychiatrist, and mental health educator whose mission is to save lives through knowledge and innovation. 💊📘
🎓 Doctor of Medical Sciences | 🧳 MBA Graduate
📚 Researcher at Linnaeus University (2021–2024) and Karlstad University (from 2025) in 🇸🇪 Sweden
🇪🇺 Coordinator of ELLIPSE and ELLIPSE Postvention – EU co-funded projects bringing suicidology knowledge to students, professionals, and the general public.
📱 Co-author of the “12-Step Safety Plan” – a web application supporting users in managing mental health crises and helping others through tough times.
🌐 Co-creator of the world’s first international, interdisciplinary online course for su***de prevention, ELLIPSE Gatekeeper+, available in 7 languages 🗣️: 🇬🇧 🇵🇱 🇸🇪 🇩🇪 🇳🇴 🇭🇺 🇺🇦
🕊️ Co-developer of ELLIPSE Postvention – one of the first online postvention trainings (PL/EN/SWE), supporting those affected by su***de loss.
🏅 In 2023, she founded and was elected Vice-Chair of the Education & Training Section at the International Association for Su***de Prevention (IASP).
📊 Principal Investigator for Task 6, “Education in Su***de Prevention”, under Poland’s National Health Programme(2021–2025)
🏛️ Since 2016 – Member of the Polish Ministry of Health’s Public Health Council, Working Group on Su***de and Depression Prevention
📖 Co-author of:
📕 Poland’s first National Su***de Prevention Programme
📘 Learning from Lived Experience (EN & HU)
📗 ELLIPSE Postvention Handbook (EN, PL, SWE)
🏫 School postvention guide
📰 Media & online moderator postvention guide
🧾 Author of scientific publications in top journals like Crisis, The Lancet Psychiatry, and eClinical Medicine
💪 A powerful advocate for su***de prevention – combining science, compassion, and digital innovation to make mental health care more accessible, empathetic, and effective.