Dr Jacinta Hawgood (BSSc, BPsy(Hons), MClinPsy, PhD (MAPS, MCCLP)) is Associate Professor and Program Director of Suicidology Programs at the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, Griffith University where she has worked since 2000.

Jacinta has specialist clinical and research interest in psychosocial needs-based assessment, suicide prevention education and gatekeeper training and evaluation, impacts of client and co-worker suicide on the worker, personal suicide stigma and its impacts on suicidality. Jacinta has operated a private clinical practice since 1999 and has supervised other psychologists since 2005. She is the lead author of Systematic Tailored Assessment for Responding to Suicidality (STARS) protocol published first in 2015 and updated in 2018 and 2024. She has provided expert advice and guidance on a range of suicide-related and prevention domains; specifically suicide assessment and training development and evaluation to a range of State, Commonwealth and local government and non-government organisations. Jacinta has worked on numerous research projects and consultancies and has presented research findings at a range of state, national and international conferences. She has co-authored and edited a book, book chapters, and published numerous peer-reviewed articles and government reports in the field.