# Advancing Maryland's Statewide Suicide Data Warehouse to Improve Individual and Population-level Mortality Prediction and Prevention

> **NIH NIH R01** · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $799,385

## Abstract

❖ PROJECT SUMMARY
In 2018, NIMH funded the development of the Maryland Suicide Data Warehouse (MSDW). The aim of developing MSDW
was to link a diverse set of data sources and use various layers of risk factors to predict suicide death on a generalizable
population. Currently, MSDW includes data on ~5+ million Maryland residents spanning from 2012 to 2017. MSDW contains
hospital and emergency discharges, health information exchange (HIE) data, commercial insurance claims, medical examiner
data, electronic health record (EHR) data from 5 select health systems, and place-based social determinants of health data
covering various domains such as housing, employment, education, income and crime.
This study will leverage the unique data types linked by MSDW to improve suicide death predictions among generalizable
patient populations. Our proposed study will further expand the underlying data and develop cutting-edge use cases of
MSDW. The study aims to achieve a number of outcomes: (1) Acquire refreshed data from all existing MSDW data sources;
(2) Use the wide array of data sources stored in MSDW to advance the prediction of suicide mortality, while controlling for
data quality and potential model bias; (3) Explore various uses cases of the MSDW such as unsupervised clustering of suicide
mortality cases; and, (4) Collaborate with external investigators to validate the MSDW-derived predictive models of suicide
death.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10263277
- **Project number:** 5R01MH124724-02
- **Recipient organization:** JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Hadi Kharrazi
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $799,385
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-09-15 → 2024-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10263277

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10263277, Advancing Maryland's Statewide Suicide Data Warehouse to Improve Individual and Population-level Mortality Prediction and Prevention (5R01MH124724-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10263277. Licensed CC0.

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