It is my proud privilege to write to you as the President of the Indian Psychiatric Society North Zone. At the outset, I would like to thank all the membership for entrusting me the responsibility of the office of President, IPS NZ. I took over the office of President of the Society during the 48th Annual Conference of IPS-NZ on 27th October 2023.

The IPS NZ supports continued medical education through its yearly academic activities - Midterm CME now named as Mid-year Conference IPs NZ (MIDCIPS-NZ), Postgraduate development programme (PGDP) and Annual Conference of IPS NZ. IPS NZ promotes excellence in research in young scholars and honours lifetime achievement of senior professionals by providing yearly national awards in the field of psychiatry and mental health, during the annual national conference.

Indian Psychiatric Society-North Zone (IPS-NZ) is a non-profit organization of Psychiatrists of North India. Important objectives of the IPS-NZ are to promote awareness about mental health, wellness and psychological disorders in the general population and among the health professionals; to facilitate for effective prevention, and comprehensive management of psychiatric disorders; and to improvise service delivery, standard of care and wholesome psychiatric training for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

To safeguard the interest of mental health professionals' strength always matters, so please motivate postgraduate students, psychiatrists, mental health professionals and other health professionals to join IPS-North Zone.

The Journal of Mental Health and Human Behaviour is the Official Journal of the Indian Psychiatric Society-North Zone. The journal is being published since 1992 and currently 28 volumes of the journal has been published, with two issues published every year.

The journal is currently indexed in DOAJ, Emerging Sources Citation Index, and Indian Science Abstracts. The journal publishes original research article, review articles, brief research reports, case reports, view point, and letter to the editor. All the articles submitted to the journal undergo a rigorous peer review process.

The journal is open to all the professionals across the globe and publishes articles without any publication charges.

The Impact Factor® of the journal as reported in the 2022 Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate Analytics, 2023): 0.5.