Mental Health Research Center (MHRC) was established in 2003 and has been active in planning and execution of programs and projects on mental health. MHRC works in the fields of psychiatry, clinical psychology and mental health and aims to improve the Iranian mental health delivery system.

Mission of MHRC is to provide high quality evidence-based health services for the community, by means of designing applied researches and using modern educational methods. MHRC has had shared projects with UNODC, UNAIDS, and WHO during recent years and has the potential to collaborate with international centers in the abovementioned areas

The main goals of the center include

    To produce and to promote reliable and valid medical knowledge.

    To decrease the burden of mental disorders.

   To plan new services for providing mental health care as well as evaluation and promotion of ongoing mental          health delivery programs.

   To promote the quality of research on mental health.

   To support research projects performed by researchers and students.

   To organize courses for continuous education and capacity building of researchers and specialists.

   To perform research on identification, treatment, course and prognosis of mental disorders.

  We will try to find resources for fund raising, perform capacity building for researchers, develop a suitable base for scientific collaboration and research cooperation with other research organizations and provide access to the latest scientific findings.

The center has been evaluated every year by Ministry of Health since 2003. MHRC has had a continuously increasing score in these years. MHRC has been selected by the Ministry of Health as a knowledge management unit (KMU) in mental health.