Public mental health is the art and science of promoting mental health and wellbeing, and preventing mental illness. It is an international priority and a major challenge for public health practitioners. To help tackle increasing levels of poor mental health across England we must strengthen our research efforts to generate new knowledge and build the evidence base that practitioners and policy makers can use to improve mental health across the population.
Our aim is to generate high-quality evidence to improve the mental health of children, young people, and adults, which will support the work of practitioners in public mental health.