CAMH ranked Canada’s top mental health research hospital with record research funding in 2021

On January 18, 2022, Research Infosource released its 2021 rankings for Canada’s Top 40 Research Hospitals.

CAMH has once again topped the list as the country’s leading mental health research hospital. During the 2019-20 fiscal year, CAMH reached $75.6 million in research spending followed by a new record high of $79.7 million in 2020-21, reflecting the continued importance of mental health and addictions research to CAMH’s overall mandate.

CAMH advanced its ranking within its sub-category of medium-sized hospitals to 3^rd overall in ‘researcher intensity,’ the amount of research spending per researcher. CAMH also maintained its 2^nd place position for ‘hospital intensity,’ which analyzes research spending as a percentage of total hospital spending.

Over the last decade, CAMH has continued to expand its role in carrying out unique, important, and timely research in the field of mental health and addictions. In Research Infosource’s 2021 rankings, CAMH came in 14th overall among the country’s top 40 leading research hospitals, funding a variety of research with a focus in areas such as cannabis, depression, digital research, schizophrenia, and COVID-19.

Some of last year’s stand-out research stories included:

• ongoing research to help understand why young people vape, and to what resources they need to quit;
• Growing CAMH’s BrainHealth Databank to drive data-driven discoveries and innovations that will improve patient care;
• COVID-19-related research, including a better understanding of the pandemic’s effect on substance users and homeless 2SLGBTQ youth, as well as a potential link between  long COVID and depression; and
• the additions of the Centre for Complex Interventions and the Centre for Youth Bipolar Disorder to CAMH’s Centres of Innovation.

Check out the complete list of Canada’s Top 40 Research Hospitals in 2021.

Read how CAMH did in last year’s rankings.

Find out more about research at CAMH.