In 1982, after consultation with the Canadian government, the Director-General of WHO designates the Douglas Mental Health University Institute as the first Collaborating Centre for research and training in mental health in Canada.

The Montreal WHO/PAHO Collaborating Centre: Striving to improve access to mental health care around the world.

Douglas Hospital was founded in 1881 by Alfred Perry and a group of Protestant clergy and Montréal citizens.

Marc Laporta, MD, develops international collaborative ventures  in the area of emergencies and disasters for the Americas.

A conference on mental health in Haiti will bring together on Friday and Saturday people from Haiti, the US and Quebec who are passionate about these issues.

International cooperation > A general practitioner from Haiti comes for training at the Douglas Institute.

French delegation visits the Collaborating Centre

A portrait of Gaston Harnois, MD, responsible for establishing the WHO/PAHO Collaborating Centre.

The WHO/PAHO Collaborating Centre is involved in a collaborative study on mental health in the workplace with experts from Barcelona (Spain). As part of this project, two Catalan experts participated to a colloquium at the Douglas. Professor Luis Salvador, from Girona, talked about depressio[...]

As Director General of the Douglas from 1971 to 1988, Gaston Harnois, MD, paved the route of community psychiatry.