Yes. We have a number of very important partnerships.
I am responsible for the partnerships between CIHR and its counterpart in China, called the National Natural Science Foundation. We have established over a 10-year period a very effective partnership with China. It came as a bit of a surprise to me when I met with the head of that agency and asked what their most pressing issues were. I was thinking cancer, or whatever. He said that one of the most serious problems in China is heroin addiction, that they have more than one million people addicted, and that anything we could do to help them with that problem would be most welcome.
We also work very closely with the European Union. In fact, we're one of the few, other than Israel, I believe, non-European countries that has a formal research partnership with the EU.
On another dimension of mental health, dementia, the loss of cognitive functioning later in life, which of course is a mental ill-health issue, we're partnered with the European Commission on the joint program in neurodegeneration in dementia, and we have a very active research collaboration in that area.
International partnerships are very important for CIHR, and Canadians are punching way above their weight.
I have one final statistic on this is in terms of the research papers that are published in Canada. Over 50% of the papers we publish are in partnership with an international researcher.