Company Profile
Black Dog Institute
Company Overview
The Black Dog Institute is a Medical Research Institute and a global leader in translational mental health research. We harness the latest technology and other tools to quickly turn our world-class research findings into clinical services, education and e-health products that improve the lives of people with mental illness and the wider community.
Our areas of strength include suicide prevention, e-mental health, workplace mental health, novel treatments and prevention in young people. Our research and other activity is funded by competitive peer-reviewed and government grants, fee for service, philanthropy and donations from our committed community of supporters.
We are a trusted partner of government, universities, health services, workplaces, clinicians, industry, philanthropists, and schools across the country. Crucially, we also draw upon our extensive network of lived experience volunteers to increase the impact and effectiveness of our work.
Since its inception the Black Dog Institute has run a number of different clinics. Each of these clinics is designed to provide an integrated research focused approach to clinical management. Each clinic is linked to an active research stream within the Black Dog Institute and incorporates ongoing observation and interventional research.
Current clinics run by the Black Dog Institute include:
• Depression Clinic
• Bipolar Clinic
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Clinic
• Brain Stimulation Clinic (including DCS)
• Novel Treatment Clinic (including Ketamine and TMS)
• Exercise Physiology Clinic
• Psychology Clinic