Mental health epidemiologist specialising in self-harm, suicide, and the measurement of mental health and wellbeing in preadolescents

Galit Geulayov is a Senior Researcher at BrainWaves, with over 15 years of experience researching mental health in children and adolescents. She specialises in self-harm, suicide, and the development of robust, age-appropriate measures of mental health and wellbeing for preadolescent populations.

Galit’s academic background includes postdoctoral and senior postdoctoral research positions at the University of Oxford, where she worked within the Centre for Suicide Research and the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Group. During this time, she also led the self-harm theme of the OxWell Student Survey, contributing to large-scale research on young people’s mental health.

Contribution to BrainWaves
At BrainWaves, Galit focuses on developing and refining the BrainWaves survey for preadolescents. Her work ensures that the measurement of mental health and wellbeing is developmentally appropriate, scientifically rigorous, and capable of capturing meaningful insights to inform research and practice.