The Perinatal Project: Mental Health Advocacy for Mothers: NIMH wants public input on mental health research

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) at the National Institutes of Health(NIH) in Washington, DC is seeking public input on the direction of new research.

Here's the announcement from the Office of Constituency Relations at NIMH:

NIMH is seeking input from the clinical research community, mental health professionals, patient advocates and individuals living with mental illnesses, private and public mental health service systems and providers, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, and other interested groups about important public mental health research questions that could be addressed using the infrastructure provided by three NIMH clinical research networks - the Bipolar Trials Network (BTN), the Depression Trials Network (DTN), and the Schizophrenia Trials Network (STN). Click here.

Responses to this request for information will be accepted through Friday, February 9, 2007.

Please consider submitting your ideas and/or sharing this announcement with your colleagues who may be interested.

Worth a read is a new message from the NIMH director, available on their website: "Mental Health Research: Into the Future."