Welcome, friends and colleagues, to the MHS/SMHR Newsletter, the forum for the proposed Mental Health Statistics (MHS) Section in American Statistical Association (ASA), and the Statistics in Mental Health Research (SMHR) Interest Group the ASA. We hope to produce this Newsletter as a monthly series.

This is your forum. Please participate actively to make this Newsletter into a useful forum for the exchange of information and ideas. Please send us your articles on any topic that is of interest to MHS/SMHR members, announcements about awards or graduations or moves, funding opportunities, employment opportunities, etc.

For further information about MHS and SMHR, please visit our website.

If you are interested in joining in the petition for the MHS as an ASA Section, please see the article “Petition for ASA Section“, and the petition form located at

http://smhr.org/newsletter/wp-content/uploads/MHS-Section-Petition.doc.

If you are interested in enrolling in SMHR, please submit your online enrollment form.

If you are already a member of SMHR, and would like to update your membership information, please also submit an online enrollment form.

Best regards,

Robert Gibbons, University of Chicago, rdg@uchicago.edu

Naihua Duan, Columbia University, naihua.duan@columbia.edu