This document contains a summary of the 3-day Conference on Research Related to the Prevention of Mental Illness, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse. Part I, Introduction, discusses the need to stimulate collaboration between service providers and university-based researchers as the primary goal of the conference and lists specific objectives developed to achieve this goal. Participants at the conference are described and the nature of Community Service Boards is explained. The prepared text of King Davis' keynote address is presented in part II of the report, "Higher Education in the Public Health Systems: Approaches to Collaboration." In his address, Davis discusses the issues of interim strategies, prevention phases, historical overview, knowledge and public policy, parallels in medicine, state and federal responsibility, goals of state mental health, higher education, higher education and mental health relationships, impediments to collaboration, and collaboration around prevention. Part III looks at the needs and obstacles involved in promoting collaboration and part IV examines future directions for collaboration. The appendices contain a list of participants, conference evaluation results, and the conference agenda. References are included. (NB)