Global Mental Health Efficacy and Effectiveness Research Program
Overview
The goal of this program is to support research on novel interventions or service models that improve clinical benefit, practice and scalability and thereby contribute to the improvement of global mental health outcomes. This program supports research that uses an experimental therapeutics approach to developing and testing interventions to prevent and treat mental illnesses in different populations worldwide. For cognitive, behavioral and other psychosocial interventions, the goal of this empirically grounded, mechanism-based approach is to demonstrate target engagement and identify dosing parameters (such as intensity, frequency, or duration) at which the intervention has the optimal effect on the target.
Areas of Emphasis:
- Studies that develop, test, and optimize efficacy or effectiveness of preventive, diagnostic, and treatment interventions for mental illnesses among children, youth, and adults living in various global settings.
- Studies that investigate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness (such as cost utility analysis, cost-benefit analysis, budget-impact analysis) of interventions for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders in resource-constrained settings.
- Effectiveness research to develop and test the integration of mental health interventions into existing care for other chronic diseases including HIV.
- Hybrid effectiveness-implementation studies.
See more information on NIMH’s support for clinical trials.
Director
Leonardo Cubillos, M.D., M.P.H.
6001 Executive Boulevard
Rockville, MD 20852
leonardo.cubillos@nih.gov