More than 250 Canadians sent letters, reaching over 40% of newly elected MPs to call for urgent federal action on brain and mental health research!
Help us keep brain health front and center.
Send a letter to congratulate your MP and remind them that brain health belongs in Budget 2025.
Because when it comes to brain health, the stakes are too high to ignore — and our community isn’t done raising its voice.
What’s Next: Voices from the Community
We’re continuing the momentum with Voices from the Community, a storytelling series featuring Canadians speaking out on why brain health matters. These stories show that brain health is personal, urgent, and worth championing — and they keep pressure on policymakers to act.
Check out the stories in our Voices from the Community series on LinkedIn:
Vote for Brain Health Now!
🧠 Brain health is Canada’s future—but it’s missing from national priorities.
1 in 5 people—7.5 million Canadians—live with a brain condition, making brain disorders the leading cause of disability in the country. Whether it’s mental illness, autism, substance use disorders, brain injuries, or dementia, the burden is growing. It’s affecting families, straining healthcare, and undermining our workforce and productivity.
That’s why Canada’s brain research community—research leaders, people with lived experience, health charities, non-profits and industry partners—has come together to develop a national strategy. The roadmap is in place. It’s time for government to drive progress.
With a federal election ahead, we must ensure brin health is on the national agenda.
Key Messages:
- Breakthroughs are within reach: Advances in prevention, treatment, and cures depend on strategic, sustained investment to bring innovation to reality.
- Excellence needs coordination: A national initiative is needed to unite individual discoveries into collective solutions, ensuring Canada’s research efforts work together for greater impact.
- Investing now secures our future: A commitment to brain research today secures the Canadian talent to drive new discoveries for better brain health—now and for generations to come.
