This goes back to the earlier concerns about privacy. As researchers, we don't want identifying data. We don't want people's names. And all we really wanted here was the rate of suicide in this particular community versus that particular community.
Now, there's been a huge movement, which I am strongly supportive of, for communities to have ownership, control, access, and possession of their data. It's extremely frustrating for communities when they say, “We think we have a cancer crisis in our community, but we don't know because we can't get access to the data.” I think that's understandably frustrating for communities. We need a system. If we're collecting all this data, if we're holding all this data, then we need to be doing something about it. We can't intervene in a situation until we know the size of the problem.
First we need the data. Then we need interventions that we know will actually work, so culturally based interventions, and we need all the infrastructure that's needed to support those things. At the moment, I'm not convinced we have that.