The Mental Health Research Center  of Philips University aims to lead excellence in mental health research to have a meaningful impact on policy, practice, society and individuals. The Center aims to provide a public health perspective that is responsive to community needs and values prevention and recovery.  The center aims to highlight measures to protect and care for the mental health of young people, who have faced many situations in recent years that may affect their mental health in the short term as well as in the long term, such as the Pandemic, the War in Ukraine and the Israel and other everyday issues. This requires displacement of priorities for prevention: addressing behavioral risk factors and social, environmental and commercial determinants and taking more ambitious action to promote mental health and prevent ill mental health.

   Finally, the Center proceeds with conducting research around five key themes: Understanding and improving communication in health care, understanding and addressing inequalities and marginalization in mental health, perinatal mental health, supporting people in crisis and the intersection of mental and physical health.