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Funding mental health research in Arizona since 2001. The Necessity of Mental Health Research In the summer of 1999 Governor Jane Hull and the Arizona legislature created a commission called the Bush Commission to review and make recommendations on the state of mental health services in Arizona. One of the Commissions key recommendations suggested by Commission members Mike Meyer a private businessman and Dr. Alan Gelenberg Past Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona was to establish a worldrenowned institute to conduct mental health research and support young investigators In the ensuing two years cofounders Mike Meyer and Dr.