As you can well imagine, trying to keep up with what's going on in the world of mental health care is not an easy challenge today. There are a lot of people spending a lot of time and energy researching mental health care and we're learning tremendously. We recognize these advances. We work very hard to keep up with what is going on, and to achieve that we participate in the NATO Human Factors and Medicine Research Panel, where all of the NATO countries and other invited countries are able to discuss what's going on in research in mental health, as well as other aspects of health care and medical care and protection. We also participate in a quadripartite group, the TTCP. I'm sorry, but I can't remember what that stands for right now, but it consists of Australia, Canada, the U.S., and the U.K, and it's where we share what's going on within health care. We've just stood up the centre of excellence in mental health, with Dr. Rakesh Jetley as the chair of mental health research at that centre. His role and that of the other members of that centre of excellence is to track what's going on with advances in mental health care treatment and to try to make sure that the knowledge is translated across our organization and within Veterans Affairs so that we can best apply those new practices.
On March 10th, 2015. See this statement in context.