Dr. Luis Zayas, UT Austin - Latina Suicide Rates




The Academic Minute show

Summary: One segment of the population commits suicide more than any other: Hispanics teens. Dr. Luis Zayas, Dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin, shares some numbers and dissects the factors contributing to this troubling trend. Dr. Luis H. Zayas is the Dean and Robert Lee Sutherland Chair in Mental Health and Social Policy. Before joining UT Austin, Zayas was the inaugural Shanti K. Khinduka Distinguished Professor of Social Work and Professor of Psychiatry at