Iranian Mental Health Research Network (MHRN) is a network of some related research

Research

Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...

 centers founded in 2006 in Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. The network is supervised by the Iranian Deputy of Research and Technology of the Ministry of Health. Currently it includes ten centers active in the field of mental health

Mental health

Mental health describes either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and...

 research. The network aims to promote high quality research in this field, especially applied research and Health System Research. Developing the databases of published articles in Persian

Persian language

Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

 (Iranpsych) and other useful databases for Iranian researchers (including researchers and psychological assessment tools) is one of the primary goals of the network. Director of the Iranian MHRN is Dr Jafar Bolhari

Jafar Bolhari

Jafar Bolhari, M.D., was born in 1948 in Iran-HAMEDAN and is an Iranian psychiatrist and researcher. He is a professor of psychiatry at the Mental Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, and has been working as the director of Tehran Psychiatric Institute since 1992...

, a psychiatrist and current director of Tehran Psychiatric Institute .
The website address of the network is www.mhrn.net