CIHR launches mental health research network

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Graham Boeckh Foundation have joined forces to choose a partnership lead and selection panel for a new mental health research network. Dr Jacques Hendlisz, chairman of Research Canada has been chose as the partnership lead while the nine-member selection panel is chaired by Dr Dennis Furlong, former New Brunswick Minister of Health. The network will be called Transformational Research in Adolescent Health (TRAM) - A Patient-Oriented Initiative and is the first of several networks planned under CIHR's Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (R$, March 29/12)...