Iranian Mental Health Research Network

Iranian Mental Health Research Network (MHRN) (Persian: شبكه تحقيقات سلامت روان‎‎) is a network of some related research centers founded in 2006 in Iran. The network is supervised by the Iranian Deputy of Research and Technology of the Ministry of Health. Currently it includes ten centers active in the field of mental health research. The network aims to promote high quality research in this field, especially applied research and Health System Research. Developing the databases of published articles in Persian (Iranpsych) and other useful databases for Iranian researchers (including researchers and psychological assessment tools) is one of the primary goals of the network. Director of the Iranian MHRN is Dr Jafar Bolhari, a psychiatrist and current director of Tehran Psychiatric Institute.