Resources

American Mindfulness Research Association
The American Mindfulness Research Association (AMRA) was founded in 2013. Its mission is to support empirical and conceptual efforts to establish an evidence base for the process, practice, and construct of mindfulness; promote best standards for and ethical use of mindfulness research and applications; and facilitate mindfulness-related dialogue and discovery.

American Psychological Association, Division 38 (Health Psychology)
The Society for Health Psychology, a longstanding division within APA, is dedicated to advancing the contributions of psychology toward understanding health and illness.

Brown Mindfulness Center
The Mindfulness Center at Brown University, housed within the School of Public Health, is a world leader in mindfulness research, training, and education.

Center for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts Medical School
The Center for Mindfulness, where Jon Kabat-Zinn and colleagues developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), is dedicated to integrating mindfulness and meditation into mainstream medicine, health care, and education.

Duke Integrative Medicine
A Duke medical facility that joins traditional Western medicine together with complementary therapies that focus on the whole person. Dr. Jeff Brantley founded the MBSR program at Duke in the 1990s.

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
The Federal government’s leading agency for scientific research that focuses on medical and health systems, practices and products that are not a part of conventional medicine.

Society for Biopsychosocial Science in Medicine
The SBSM (formerly American Psychosomatic Society) promotes the scientific understanding and multidisciplinary integration of biological, psychological, and social factors in human health and disease. This professional society fosters the dissemination and application of biopsychosocial science in education and health care.