Global mental health: the role of collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kimberly Hook^{1

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3}, Haley A Carroll^{1

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3}, Elizabeth F Louis^{1

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3}, Maria C Prom^{1

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3}, Amelia M Stanton^{1

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3}, Sergiy Bogdanov⁴, Bonginkosi Chiliza⁵, Luisa Feline Freier⁶, Godfrey Zari Rukundo⁷, Senait Ghebrehiwet¹, Christina P C Borba^{1

2}, Gregory L Fricchione^{3

8}, David C Henderson^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Center for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, Kyiv, Ukraine.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
⁶ Department of Social and Political Sciences, Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Perú.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda.
⁸ Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁹ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Kimberly Hook et al. Glob Ment Health (Camb). 2021.

. 2021 May 28:8:e20.

doi: 10.1017/gmh.2021.20. eCollection 2021.

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Center for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, Kyiv, Ukraine.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
⁶ Department of Social and Political Sciences, Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Perú.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda.
⁸ Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁹ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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