Mental Health Goals
The Mental Health Goals programme is a UK-wide initiative accelerating the development and testing of innovative mental health treatments and technologies to tackle some of the biggest public health challenges facing the UK.
Mental Health Goals programme
The Mental Health Goals (MHG) programme is a UK-wide initiative that supports leading experts to transform mental health research infrastructure and deliver real improvements for people affected by mental health conditions. It involves combining mental health and biological data, lived experience, industry partnerships and clinical trial methodology.
Funded by the Office for Life Sciences and delivered by the Medical Research Council (MRC) the MHG programme is investing £50 million over five years to put people with lived experience at the heart of mental health research and innovation. The MHG supports leading experts in mental health data, digital technology, genomics and multiomics, lived experience, industry partnerships, and trials methodology to build sustainable infrastructure that transforms mental health research and delivers real improvements for people affected by mental health problems.
Researchers from our BRC – Professors Gerome Breen, Mitul Mehta and Richard Emsley – will co-lead two of the four programme workstreams together with Cardiff University, Health Innovation Oxford & Thames Valley and University of Oxford – read more below.
In May 2024, the Mental Health Goals programme invested in DATAMIND – the Hub for Mental Health Informatics Research Development – to support with robust data and digital infrastructure. Our informatics theme lead – Professor Robert Stewart – is co-director of DATAMIND.
The MHG programme is jointly led by Co-Chairs Professor Kathryn Abel and Professor Husseini Manji.
King's College London and NIHR Maudsley BRC researchers play major role in £50 million government funded programme into mental health research
Researchers will help transform mental health data, clinical trials and industry partnerships as part of the UK Government’s Mental Health Goals programme.
Mental Health Mission (previous investment by the Office for Life Sciences)
The Mental Health Mission (MHM), announced in May 2023, was a £42.7 million investment in clinical research centres across the UK to develop innovative new treatments and technologies. The Mission works with patients, NHS staff and clinicians and innovators to make the UK a leading location in which to test and trial new products.
The Mental Health Mission is now delivered via the NIHR’s Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration (MH-TRC).
The Mental Health Mission is one of the healthcare research priorities announced by the government as part of its Life Sciences Vision.