Death by suicide during the perinatal period has been understudied in Canada. Little is known about the true extent of the problem or the steps that can be taken to prevent it. In this interview, Dr. Sophie Grigoriadis explains the results of research on the characteristics and patterns of perinatal suicide. Dr. Grigoriadis and her co-authors published a study in CMAJ that examined maternal suicide during pregnancy and the first postpartum year in Ontario over a period of 15 years. Dr. Grigoriadis is a psychiatrist and head of the Women’s Mood and Anxiety Clinic Reproductive Transitions at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. Full article (open access): www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.170088 ----------------------------------- Subscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on iTunes, Stitcher, Overcast, Instacast, or your favourite aggregator. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page. Our podcasts are also released on www.cmaj.ca and on www.cmajblogs.com.