Gonzalo Martinez-Ales

Biography

Gonzalo Martinez-Ales is a psychiatrist-epidemiologist trained in Spain and the United States. His work focuses on the causes and outcomes of schizophrenia and suicidal behaviors. He obtained MD, MSc in epidemiology, and PhD in psychiatry degrees from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and worked as a psychiatry resident and consultant at Hospital Universitario La Paz, where he remains a research affiliate. Between 2017-2021, he collaborated with the Psychiatric Epidemiology Unit at Columbia University, where he received MPhil and PhD degrees in epidemiology. He has also served as field epidemiologist in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, and as NIH-Fogarty Scholar in the Department of Epidemiology of the University of Michigan. At Harvard, he is part of the CAUSALab.

Education and Training

• MD, Medicine
  Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
• PhD, Psychiatry
  Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
• MPhil, Epidemiology
  Columbia University
• MSc, Epidemiology
  Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
• PhD, Epidemiology
  Columbia University

Publications

• Suicide mortality in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic: Longitudinal analysis of sociodemographic factors.

  de la Torre-Luque A, Perez-Diez I, Pemau A, Martinez-Ales G, Borges G, Perez-Sola V, Ayuso-Mateos JL. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2024

• Geographic Variation, Economic Activity, and Labor Market Characteristics in Trajectories of Suicide in the United States, 2008-2020.

  Keyes KM, Kandula S, Martinez-Ales G, Gimbrone C, Joseph V, Monnat S, Rutherford C, Olfson M, Gould M, Shaman J. Am J Epidemiol 2024 02 05

• Suicide Following the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak: Variation Across Place, Over Time, and Across Sociodemographic Groups. A Systematic Integrative Review.

  Martínez-Alés G, Szmulewicz A, López-Cuadrado T, Morrison CN, Keyes KM, Susser ES. Curr Psychiatry Rep 2023 07

• Incidence, prevalence, and trajectories of suicidal ideation among clients enrolled in early intervention services for first episode psychosis in New York State.

  Martínez-Alés G, Bello I, Basaraba C, Van der Ven E, Mascayano F, Nossel I, Labouliere C, Susser E, Wall M, Stanley B, Dixon LB. Schizophr Res 2023 06

• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide mortality in Spain: Differences by sex and age.

  Martínez-Alés G, López-Cuadrado T, Morrison C, Keyes K, Susser E. J Affect Disord 2023 05 15