Luis Zayas discusses Latina suicide on NPR’s Latino USA

Luis Zayas, PhD, the Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, will be on this week’s Latino USA program on NPR discussing Latina teen suicide in the United States. Listen to the program at http://www.latinousa.org/916-2/.

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In recent years, one in five U.S. Latina teens attempted suicide. Though this rate is startlingly higher than their non-Hispanic peers, “efforts to understand the phenomenon have been hampered by a dearth of solid statistics and research,” says Zayas, the founder and director of the Center for Latino Family Research at the Brown School.

Visit http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/6681.aspx for more information about Zayas’ work on Latina suicide.