The Data Management Unit (DMU) was established in 2003 to help members of the Douglas Institute's Research Centre conduct and manage surveys and investigations.

The CIHR Team in Social and Psychiatric Epidemiology gratefully acknowledges the 2,433 participants of the longitudinal survey.

Members of the CIHR Team in Social and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Norbert Schmitz laboratory studies the relationship between mental disorders and somatic chronic conditions in the general population.

Many services are available to the Research Centre’s PIs and their partners to facilitate their work.

The Douglas Mental Health University Institute is seriously committed to the protection of your privacy. The Douglas wants to ensure that you are well informed about our privacy policy with regard to the collection and use of all personal information that you provide to us.

Through research at PEPP, patients benefit from new knowledge, resulting in state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment methods for the early stages of psychosis

Norbert Schmitz is involved in biostatistics, psychiatric epidemiology and psychometrics.  

Gustavo Turecki investigates the neurobiology of suicide, focusing on the role of genetic risk factors.

The researchers working on the “Services, policy and population health” theme come from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds: psychiatry, epidemiology, law, anthropology, economy, psychology, social work, administration. Their goal is to inspire and influence developments in mental health policy so that people living with a mental illness can obtain the care and services to which they are entitled. To accomplish this, the researchers: Study the organization of mental health s...