In the last two months, Rosenthal has conducted a review of mental health personnel as outlined by the interim report’s third recommendation.

The review will guide the report recommendation for an increase in staff that could add more clinicians and counselors to not only MHS, where the problem is reportedly more acute, but also to the Bureau. Rosenthal wrote in an e-mail last week that Barreira will review the staffing study after July 1.

“The sense within the student community is that the level of clinical staffing at MHS is inadequate,” the report said.

Compared to a comparable system at Yale University, and taking into account the differences in student body size, Barreira said that “it was pretty clear that we are short” in staff numbers.

The interim report, released February 27 after Gross and Hyman pressed to have an early indicator of areas to begin work on, also called for more mental health clinicians in both offices and an overall improvement in the approachability of Harvard’s counseling services.

“Both Hyman and Gross really wanted—if we knew where we were headed—to have something sooner,” Barreira said after the interim report’s release.

—Staff writer Katharine A. Kaplan can be reached at kkaplan@fas.harvard.edu.