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 Campaign  Join the fight to conquer mental illness NARSAD’s $200 million campaign is a unique and unprecedented initiative for breakthroughs in mental health research and serves to broaden public awareness of the achievements, potential and need for mental health research. As a launch to this campaign, NARSAD has organized a day of free public forums on the progress and promise of mental health research, taking place at locations throughout the United States and in Canada on Sunday, September 14, 2008. For this kick-off to an ambitious five-year fundraising campaign, NARSAD is collaborating with 50 top universities and medical research centers to hold a series of same-day forums to highlight mental health research accomplishments, innovative treatments and breakthroughs on the horizon. While also serving to publicly announcing the $200 million fundraising campaign, the day of transcontinental events will bring attention to the transformations achieved through NARSAD’s support of psychiatric research at leading institutions worldwide and increase awareness of the potential of research. In partnership with NARSAD, each institution hosting a forum will provide leading mental health experts to discuss the rapid progress of research over the past few decades and take stock of what we know about the brain and its disorders. Each forum will provide a window on the new world of mental health research, new directions in research, and current goals for improving treatments and finding cures. As part of the events, there will also be a video presentation by Herbert Pardes, M.D., the director of NARSAD’s Scientific Council, and two Nobel Prize-winning members of the council, Eric Kandel, M.D., of Columbia University, and Paul Greengard, Ph.D., of Rockefeller University, who will comment on the history, achievements and goals of NARSAD. “The Healthy Minds Across America campaign represents a significant milestone in our quest to raise both awareness and funds for psychiatric research,” said Constance E. Lieber, president emerita of NARSAD, who chairs the campaign. “The time for broader philanthropic aid for mental health research is now, as it currently lags far behind that of other disorders which affect far fewer people.” “Funding has remained flat for our federal research agency, the National Institutes of Health, and probably won’t get better any time soon,” commented Herbert Pardes, M.D., president of NARSAD’s Scientific Council, who is also president and CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and a former head of the National Institute of Mental Health. “But we can’t wait for the federal government. Too many lives are at stake, and we must not lose the momentum in research that we’ve achieved over the past two decades…There is no better time, to launch such a campaign.” “The $200 million we plan to raise in the next five years will increase the funds available for critically needed research and hasten our progress in the search for better treatments and cures for major mental illnesses,” added Ms. Lieber, who led NARSAD from 1989 to 2007. The funds raised from the campaign will allow NARSAD to accelerate the number of grants it awards, increase the size of the Young Investigator grants and build an endowment fund to provide greater capacity to respond to the challenges and opportunities that arise in field of mental health research. For more information, and to find out how you can help, contact us at healthyminds@narsad.org or (800) 829-8289 or (516) 829-0091. |
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