Federal Research Collaboration

This brochure highlights VA collaborations with other federal agencies. These collaborations enable the VA to support the swift translation of medical findings into real-life strategies to make life better for veterans and all Americans.

Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses

VA Research is conducting a wide array of studies to better understand and treat the illnesses experienced by some Veterans of the 1990–1991 Gulf War.

Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans

This brochure describes VA's comprehensive research agenda to address the deployment-related health issues of the newest generation of veterans—those returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF).

Mental Health

This brochure highlights examples of VA Research’s trailblazing discoveries and innovations in support of veterans’ mental health care needs.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

This brochure presents examples of VA’s recent accomplishments in PTSD research. These studies, it is hoped, will benefit veterans and many other Americans now and in the future and spare them from PTSD’s life-disrupting symptoms and complications.

Prosthetics

This brochure highlights the many forms of rehabilitation that these veterans require, and introduces the VA Research program’s broad spectrum of advances in prosthetics and related assistive devices to address these health care needs.

Rural Health

This brochure highlights work conducted by the VA to further increase access to high-quality health care for veterans in rural areas.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

This brochure highlights some of the groundbreaking research projects being undertaken by VA’s dedicated investigators—studies that promise, ultimately, to improve the care available to our courageous veterans coping with traumatic brain injury.

VA Academic Research Collaboration

This brochure will give you a glimpse of some of the innovative health discoveries and advances being made by VA and academic researchers, and illustrate how these collaborative achievements are improving the lives of our nation’s Veterans and their families.

VA Research & Development Program Overview

For more than 60 years, the Veterans Affairs (VA) Research and Development program has been improving the lives of Veterans and all Americans through health care discovery and innovation. The VA Research program is unique because of its focus on medical issues that affect Veterans. It is part of an integrated health care system with a state-of-the-art electronic health record and has come to be viewed as a model for superior bench-to-bedside research.

Women's Health

This brochure highlights examples of VA Research’s innovations and discoveries that are further advancing health care for women.