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in approaches that reduce risk before
symptoms appear — whether through early
screening, community-level programs, or
tools people can use on their own, we can
move mental health closer to how we think
about physical health: something maintained
over a lifetime, not addressed only in crisis.
5. Greater Trust, Equity, and Participation
In Research
Mental health research has historically
been conducted on narrow slices of the
population — often excluding communities
of color, rural populations, and people
without access to academic medical
centers. By building partnerships directly
within communities, recruiting more diverse
participants, and giving the public a more
active role in shaping what gets studied
and how, research can more accurately
represent the people who experience
mental illness and deliver 昀椀ndings that hold
up across wider population segments.
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Leaders from academia, industry,
philanthropy, and the lived experience
community contributed to our 2025 Summit
The clearest signal of progress came in the
collective sentiment that the 昀椀eld is moving
from observation to intervention — from
identifying what goes wrong in the brain to
engineering precise ways to 昀椀x it. And this
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Strategic opportunities for
perspective is shaping the work of people
transforming the 昀椀eld were the
across the mental health ecosystem.
focus of the Summit program
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