About MP2

Build the evidence. Strengthen the people who act on it.

Mission: Prevent & Protect is an independent military prevention research collaborative in formation. We connect the people who generate evidence with the people responsible for turning it into care.

Close the distance between research and practice.

Military prevention is distributed across leaders, clinicians, chaplains, researchers, analysts, prevention staff, and service members themselves. Useful learning is often fragmented by organizational boundaries and turnover.

MP2 exists to connect that field: sponsor rigorous work, preserve methods and findings, translate evidence for leaders, and help organizations turn responsible analytic practice into durable systems.

Bring a problem worth solving.

MP2 is seeking collaborators who value rigorous inquiry, responsible data use, honest limits, and practical prevention.

Research

Study and replicate.

Develop measures, designs, evaluations, and open methods that can travel across contexts.

Practice

Translate and test.

Bring field questions, implementation knowledge, lived experience, and intervention expertise.

Leadership

Build the system.

Define the decision, create governance, interpret signals, and establish learning routines.

Data & AI

Enable responsibly.

Develop transparent organizational decision support with privacy and human judgment built in.

Independent. Transparent about where we are.

Cofounders

Jon Bate & Ryan Pallas

MP2 is being developed as a public-good research collaborative. Its legal structure, scientific governance, and durable institutional home remain under development.

MP2 is not currently represented as an incorporated organization or a tax-exempt charity, and it does not imply endorsement by any government agency, military service, university, funder, or partner.