Public Mental Health and Implementation Research Program

All research conducted by iSPARC faculty falls under the Public Mental Health and Implementation Research Program. The Public Mental Health and Implementation Research Program focuses on solving real-world challenges to improve interventions that support the recovery of individuals with lived experience across their lifespan. iSPARC is nationally recognized for its record of high-quality innovative research related to the treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery of individuals of all ages with serious mental health conditions. Our investigators include nationally recognized senior mental health services researchers and promising early researchers who receive stellar mentoring from senior investigators.

Public mental health services research helps to develop the knowledge base concerning the needs of individuals with lived experience and their families, best and evidence-based practices, and policies that support or impede those practices. iSPARC’s outstanding mental health services investigators conduct innovative research in this area. 

We conduct innovative applied public mental health and implementation research that is grounded in the real world by our partnerships with DMH and its stakeholders; incorporate our findings into strategies from implementation science; and use implementation science to guide and inform our technical assistance, and vice versa, to integrate research into practice.

Our work has led to meaningful outcomes for individuals with lived experience across the lifespan.