BCMHSUS Research Institute

We aim to transform patient and client care throughout British Columbia.

About the research institute

Through research, we aim to transform care and treatment for people:

with mental health and substance use issues
who are in custody
who have been found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder

We encourage innovative thinking and approaches in mental health and substance use research to:

Generate new knowledge
Work in partnership with researchers and academic institutions, clinicians, people with lived and living experience and other stakeholders across BC
Integrate research evidence developed with people with lived and living experience of health care
Ground our work in equity, diversity and inclusion and Indigenous health research ethics

Research institute team

Learn more about the research team and operational staff who are part of the research institute, based at the Translational Research Building on the Oak Street campus in Vancouver. Some work takes place at BCMHSUS clinical program sites, including θəqiʔ ɫəwʔənəq leləm’ (the Red Fish Healing Centre for Mental Health and Addiction) and the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital.

The institute's researchers have academic affiliations with either the University of British Columbia or Simon Fraser University.

Research newsletter

Learn more about BCMHSUS research and work in progress.

If you have content to share, email: BCMHSUS_Research@phsa.ca.

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We are grateful to all the First Nations who have cared for and nurtured the lands and waters around us for all time, including the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), and səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) on whose unceded and ancestral territory our head office is located.

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