Research

This section will introduce you to CAMH's Research Program.  Our science is revolutionizing knowledge, changing approaches, influencing public policy and improving treatment of mental illness and addictions.

CAMH is home to the largest mental health and addictions research facility in Canada.

We have more than 100 full-time scientists and over 500 staff and students working together to better understand mental illness and substance use disorders and improve diagnosis, prevention, intervention, treatment and public policy initiatives. Our scientists are leaders in developing world-class research and translating these pioneering discoveries into clinical "bed-side" care.

Research Highlights

• 2007-2008 Research Report now available
  
• Large-scale investment catapults CAMH’s research forward
  We proud to announce a landmark investment of $15 million by the Canada Foundation for Innovation into research that will propel the understanding, intervention, treatment and prevention of mental illness and addiction to the next level of excellence. CFI’s contribution, the largest individual grant in CAMH’s history, kicks off a $38 million project that will enable CAMH to focus on transforming lives across six research themes: Schizophrenia, Mood Disorders, Addictions, Community Health & Knowledge Exchange, Neuroimaging, Pharmacogentics and Neuroscience. Visit Transforming Care for Mental Illness and Addiction - An Integrated Approach for more information.
  
• CAMH Science: Centred on Discovery Volume Three, Issue One
• Save $1 Billion and 800 Lives, report new CAMH study
  The Avoidable Cost of Alcohol Abuse in Canada 2002  report estimates that, even under very conservative assumptions,implementing six reviewed interventions would result in cost savings of about $1 billion per year and a savings of about 800 lives, close to 26,000 years of life lost to premature death and more than 88,000 acute care hospital days in Canada per year.  This pioneering study is Canada's first systematic estimate of the avoidable costs of alcohol abuse, and the first study of its kind worldwide. 

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