Rethinking funding priorities in mental health research

Roberto Lewis-Fernández¹, Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus¹, Virginia Trotter Betts¹+17

• ¹Roberto Lewis-Fernández, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, and New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence, and Hispanic Treatment Program, at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA; Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA; Virginia Trotter Betts, MSN, JD, RN, HealthFutures, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Lisa Greenman, JD, Attorney At Law, Washington, DC, USA; Susan M. Essock, PhD, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA; Javier I. Escobar, MD, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA; Deanna Barch, PhD, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA; Michael F. Hogan, PhD, Dartmouth (Geisinger) Medical School, Case Western Reserve Medical School, and New York University Medical School, and Hogan Health Solutions, New York, USA; Patricia A. Areán, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; Benjamin G. Druss, MD, MPH, Ralph J. DiClemente, PhD, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Thomas H. McGlashan, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, and Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Dilip V. Jeste, MD, Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA; Enola K. Proctor, PhD, Brown School of Social Work, and Center for Mental Health Services Research, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA; Pedro Ruiz, MD, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA; A. John Rush, MD, Duke-National University of Singapore, and Duke Medical School, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; Glorisa J. Canino, PhD, Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, and Department of Pediatrics, University of Pu