Venezuelan migrants in Colombia: COVID-19 and mental health

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
² Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Militar Central, Bogotá, Colombia; Department of Psychiatry, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia; School of Medicine, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
³ Latin America Studies Program, American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC, USA.
⁴ Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry, Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia; Department of Psychiatry, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
⁶ Department of Government, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
⁷ Center for Humanitarian Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁸ Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
⁹ Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA. Electronic address: jshultz1@med.miami.edu.

Zelde Espinel et al. Lancet Psychiatry. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;7(8):653-655.

doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30242-X.

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
² Department of Psychiatry, Hospital Militar Central, Bogotá, Colombia; Department of Psychiatry, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia; School of Medicine, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
³ Latin America Studies Program, American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC, USA.
⁴ Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry, Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia; Department of Psychiatry, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
⁶ Department of Government, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
⁷ Center for Humanitarian Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁸ Miami Transplant Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
⁹ Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA. Electronic address: jshultz1@med.miami.edu.

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