World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Training and Research in Mental Health and in the Prevention of Substance Abuse

Mission

• epidemiologic studies of the etiology and course of mental illness;
• transfer of information systems technologies and development of information systems methodologies which are useful across cultural and national boundaries and which are flexible enough to allow modification to meet local needs;
• development of methodologies for studying the impact of psychological problems on general health care services;
• services research concerned with cost-efficient care delivery;
• studies in mental health economics;
• development and application of statistical methodologies to mental health problems;
• development of medical curricula on addictive illness for international dissemination;
• organization and training of an international cadre of senior professionals for medical education programs in addictive illness and for the dissemination of the results of treatment research; and
• development and dissemination of a cross-national evaluation of treatment programs for addiction.