MIPC Goes Global
Only two years old, Mental Illness Prevention Center has successfully established itself as the center of an internationally-based network of cooperating medical research centers. With an international membership that includes Nobel Laureates and renowned scientists, MIPC literally circles the world to deal with specific mental disorders. MIPC's growing multinational research network includes Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Morocco, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. See the Scientific Advisory Board for more details of who and where. This worldwide network provides scientists with the opportunity and tools to reach an entirely new level of understanding in the study of mental illness. Recognizing the international nature of mental illness as a public health problem, MIPC has also developed relationships with the World Health Organization, the World Psychiatric Association, and the United Nations. This gives the Center access to different gene pools for its research and will allow them to see whether prevention techniques that work in one culture can be translated into another culture with equal effectiveness. With remarkable speed for so young an institution, MIPC has also developed Scientific Sections that focus on specific disorders. Their international nature gives them access to different gene pools and importantly different cultural settings. In this way, research can be conducted simultaneously and allow the Center to obtain a sufficient number of cases to produce results in a reasonable time frame. These Scientific Sections include:
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