ON-GOING

International Collaboration
Research Directorate and Veterans Affairs Canada

Ongoing with Australian and United States Veterans Affairs. This work builds our international relations to support the sharing of research findings and future collaboration.

November 2003, presentation and webcast by Dr. Randy Boddam on the findings of the first large scale representative survey of mental health in the Canadian Forces including comparisons with the general Canadian population.

In October 2003, Ms. Peta Stevenson of the Defense Links Branch, Australian Veterans Affairs toured and received briefings from Veterans Affairs Canada staff in Head Office Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and VAC regional offices in Montreal and Toronto.

In July 2003 visits were taken to the National Centre PTSD in Vermont and Boston, United States.