Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research (QCMHR)

West Moreton Health (Queensland Health) and The University of Queensland

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Researcher from QCMHR interviewing a client

Established in 1987, the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research (QCMHR) is hosted by West Moreton Health and is Queensland’s premier mental health research centre. With core funding from Queensland Health, a decades-long partnership with The University of Queensland, and researchers embedded within the health system, we are uniquely positioned to connect health service and academic expertise and experiences and to maximise the potential of our research to reduce the impact of mental illness in our communities. The research efforts of our thirteen research streams are focused around the following areas of expertise:

  • Developmental neurobiology
  • Psychiatric epidemiology, risk factors, and burden of disease
  • Forensic mental health
  • Suicide crisis
  • Service design
  • Clinical trials and interventions
  • Treatment refractory schizophrenia
  • Physical and mental health comorbidity
  • Military and veterans' mental health
  • Mental health in climate change
  • Child, adolescent, and youth mental health
  • Mental health systems, services, and evaluation
  • Analysis and reporting of mental health outcomes data
  • Translation of research into policy and practice
Website
https://qcmhr.org/
Organisation type
  • Research hospital
  • Queensland government – agency
  • University research centre
Number of research staff
20-100 research staff
Address
Level 3, Dawson House, The Park – Centre for Mental Health, Wacol QLD 4076

Strengths and capabilities

  • Conducting mental health clinical trials
  • Mental health policy advice and service evaluation
  • Collaborative research in early psychosis
  • Epidemiology of mental and substance use disorders
  • Vocational rehabilitation for people with mental illness
  • Non genetic risk factors of mental illness
  • Animal models in mental health research
  • Identifying susceptibility genes for schizophrenia
  • Understanding brain development in severe mental illnesses
  • Training and mentoring mental health researchers

Facilities and major equipment

  • Developmental neurobiology laboratory
  • Biological sample storage units
  • Dedicated University of Queensland IT infrastructure within a Queensland Health facility

Lead researchers

  • Professor John McGrath: 2023 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
  • Professor Harvey Whiteford: 2023 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
  • Professor James Scott: 2023 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
  • Associate Professor Alize Ferrari: 2023 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
  • Professor Darryl Eyles: Established the biological plausibility of various epidemiological risk factors for schizophrenia.

Achievements of the centre

  • Produces world-wide metrics for all mental health disorders for the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD).

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