Scientists Against War: A Plea to World Leaders for Better Governance

Seithikurippu R Pandi-Perumal^{1

2}, Velayudhan Mohan Kumar³, Namasivayam Ganesh Pandian⁴, Joop T de Jong^{5

6}, Sudalaikannu Andiappan⁷, Alexandru Corlateanu⁸, Arehally Marappa Mahalaksmi⁹, Saravana Babu Chidambaram⁹, Ramasamy Rajesh Kumar¹⁰, Chellamuthu Ramasubramanian¹¹, Sudhakar Sivasubramaniam¹², Alvhild Alette Bjørkum¹³, JosAnn Cutajar¹⁴, Michael Berk¹⁵, Ilya Trakht¹⁶, Anton Vrdoljak¹⁷, Miguel Meira E Cruz¹⁸, Harris A Eyre^{15

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23}, Janne Grønli²⁴, Dainiel P Cardinali²⁵, Andreas Maercker²⁶, Willem A C M van de Put^{27

28}, Jaswant Guzder^{29

30}, Bjørn Bjorvatn^{31

32}, Wietse A Tol^{33

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35}, Darío Acuña-Castroviejo³⁶, Marie Meudec³⁷, Charles M Morin³⁸, Markku Partinen^{39

40}, Corrado Barbui^{41

42}, Mark J D Jordans^{43

44}, Mario H Braakman⁴⁵, Christine Knaevelsrud⁴⁶, Ståle Pallesen⁴⁷, Marit Sijbrandij⁴⁸, Diego Andrés Golombek⁴⁹, Colin A Espie^{50

51}, Pim Cuijpers^{52

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54}, Hernán Andrés Marín Agudelo⁵⁵, Koos van der Velden⁵⁶, Bessel A van der Kolk⁵⁷, Stevan E Hobfoll⁵⁸, Walter L J M Devillé^{59

60}, Michael Gradisar⁶¹, Dieter Riemann⁶², John Axelsson^{63

64}, Gloria Benítez-King⁶⁵, Robert D Macy^{66

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68}, Vitalii Poberezhets⁶⁹, Samuel Ratnajeevan Herbert Hoole⁷⁰, Rangaswamy Srinivasa Murthy⁷¹, Thomas Hegemann⁷², Andreas Heinz⁷³, Jane Salvage^{74

75}, Alexander C McFarlane⁷⁶, Rob Keukens^{77

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79}, Harendra de Silva⁸⁰, Cornelia Oestereich⁸¹, Jochen Wilhelm⁸², Michael von Cranach⁸³, Klaus Hoffmann^{84

85}, Matthias Klosinski⁸⁶, Dinesh Bhugra⁸⁷, Mary V Seeman⁸⁸

Affiliations

¹ Somnogen Canada Inc., College Street, Toronto, Canada.
² Saveetha Medical College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai, India.
³ Kerala Chapter, National Academy of Medical Sciences (India), New Delhi, India.
⁴ Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), A210, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study, Yoshida Ushinomiya-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501 Japan.
⁵ Department of Cultural Psychiatry and Global Mental Health, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁶ Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA.
⁷ Department of Gandhian Studies and Ramalingar Philosophy, School of Religions, Philosophy and Humanist Thought, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu India.
⁸ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chisinau, Moldova.
⁹ Department of Pharmacology, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, 570015 India.
¹⁰ Global Community Educational Foundation (NGCEF), 7 Peterlee Pl, Hebersham, NSW 2770 Australia.
¹¹ Division of Community Psychiatry, M. S. Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation, Madurai, India.
¹² Department of Biotechnology, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu 627012 India.
¹³ Department of Safety, Chemistry and Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Kronstad, Bergen, Norway.
¹⁴ Department of Gender and Sexualities, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta, Room # 114, Guze Cassar Pullicino Building, Msida, 2080 MSD Malta.
¹⁵ Deakin University, The Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT), School of Medicine, Barwon Health, Geelong, Australia.
¹⁶ Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY USA.
¹⁷ Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy, University of Mostar, Kampus Sveučilišta, Maticehrvatskeb. b, 88000 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
¹⁸ Centro Cardiovascular da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon School of Medicine, Av. Prof. Egas Moniz, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal.
¹⁹ Global Brain Health Institute at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA USA.
²⁰ Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
²¹ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA.
²² Neuroscience-Inspired Policy Initiative, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the PRODEO Institute and Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, Paris, France.
²³ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, TX USA.
²⁴ Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
²⁵ Faculty of Medical Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
²⁶ Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, University of Zurich, Binzmuhlestr. 14/17, 8044 Zurich, Switzerland.
²⁷ Section of International Health Policy, Institute for Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
²⁸ Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA), Fordham University, Bronx, NY USA.
²⁹ Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, 1033 Pine Ave, Montreal, Canada.
³⁰ Trauma and Global Health Program, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC Canada.
³¹ Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
³² Norway and Norwegian Competence Center for Sleep Disorders, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
³³ Section of Global Health, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
³⁴ Athena Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³⁵ AArq International, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³⁶ Centro de Investigación Biomédica, Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Biotecnología, Parque Tecnológico de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Granada, 18016 Granada, Spain.
³⁷ Outbreak Research Team and Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerpen, Belgium.
³⁸ École de Psychologie, Centre d'étude des troubles du sommeil, Centrede recherche CERVO/Brain Research Center, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
³⁹ Helsinki Sleep Clinic, Terveystalo Healthcare, Valimotie 21, 00380 Helsinki, Finland.
⁴⁰ Department of Neurosciences, Clinicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
⁴¹ WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health and Service Evaluation, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
⁴² Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
⁴³ Research and Development Department, War Child Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴⁴ Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴⁵ Department of Transcultural Forensic Psychiatry, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
⁴⁶ Psychologische Psychotherapeutin, Klinisch-Psychologische Intervention, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaftund Psychologie, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
⁴⁷ Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Christiesgt.12, 5015 Bergen, Norway.
⁴⁸ Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Clinical Psychology, World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081BT Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁴⁹ Universidad Nacional de Quilmes/CONICET, R.S. Peña 352, 1876 Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁵⁰ Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵¹ Sir Jules Thorn Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford, OX1 3QU UK.
⁵² Department of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁵³ WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Dissemination of Psychological Interventions, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁵⁴ Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
⁵⁵ Centro de Neurología, Instituto de MedicinaComportamental del Sueño, Medellín, Colombia.
⁵⁶ Department of Public Health, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
⁵⁷ Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA.
⁵⁸ Stress Anxiety and Resilience Consultants-STAR, Sandy, UT 84092 USA.
⁵⁹ National Knowledge and Advisory Center on Migrants, Refugees and Health (Pharos), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁶⁰ Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁶¹ WINK Sleep Pty Ltd, Morphett Vale, Adelaide, 5162 Australia.
⁶² Leiter der Abteilung für Klinische Psychologie and Psychophysiologie, Zentrum für Psychische Erkrankungen, Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Hauptstr. 5, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
⁶³ Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
⁶⁴ Department Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
⁶⁵ Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñíz, Calzada México-Xochimilco No 101, Colonia San Lorenzo, Huipulco, 14370 Mexico City, CDMX México.
⁶⁶ International Trauma Center, Beverly Farms, Beverly, MA 01915 USA.
⁶⁷ Harvard Medical School-McLean Hospital Developmental Trauma, Boston, MA USA.
⁶⁸ Boston Children's Foundation, 850 Summer St, South Boston, MA 02127 USA.
⁶⁹ Department of Propedeutics of Internal Medicine, National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya, Ukraine.
⁷⁰ Baldaeus Theological College, Adukubar, Konesapuri, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.
⁷¹ Formally of Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, Karnataka India.
⁷² Bayerisches Zentrumfür Transkulturelle Medizin, Landshuter Allee 21, 80637 München, Germany.
⁷³ Department Psychiatry and Neurosciences CCM, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
⁷⁴ Midwifery Leadership Consultant, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁷⁵ Kingston University, London, UK.
⁷⁶ Department of Psychiatry, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5000 Australia.
⁷⁷ GGZ Ecademy Coöperatie UA, Keltenstraat 14, 5037 KD, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
⁷⁸ Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry (FGIP), P.O. Box 1956, 1200 BZ Hilversum, The Netherlands.
⁷⁹ Supervisor Capacity Building Community Mental Health Ukraine World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁸⁰ Formally of Department of Paediatrics, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
⁸¹ Institut für systemische Therapie und Beratung, Leisewitzstraße 26, 30175 Hannover, Germany.
⁸² DeutschesZentrum für Lungenforschung (DZL), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU), Gießen, Germany.
⁸³ Hochschule München, Eggenthal, Grub 4, 87653 München, Germany.
⁸⁴ Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Feursteinstr. 55, 78479 Reichenau, Germany.
⁸⁵ Zentrum für Psychiatrie Reichenau, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Universität Konstanz, Rechtsfähige Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts, Reichenau, Germany.
⁸⁶ Facharzt für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und -psychotherapie Systemischer Berater (SG), Systemischer Therapeut (SG), TU München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, München, Germany.
⁸⁷ Professor Emeritus, Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College, London, SE5 8AF UK.
⁸⁸ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada.

PMID: 35317215
PMCID: PMC8930284
DOI: 10.1007/s41782-022-00198-0

Editorial

Scientists Against War: A Plea to World Leaders for Better Governance

Seithikurippu R Pandi-Perumal et al. Sleep Vigil. 2022.

. 2022;6(1):1-6.

doi: 10.1007/s41782-022-00198-0. Epub 2022 Mar 18.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Somnogen Canada Inc., College Street, Toronto, Canada.
² Saveetha Medical College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai, India.
³ Kerala Chapter, National Academy of Medical Sciences (India), New Delhi, India.
⁴ Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), A210, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study, Yoshida Ushinomiya-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501 Japan.
⁵ Department of Cultural Psychiatry and Global Mental Health, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁶ Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA.
⁷ Department of Gandhian Studies and Ramalingar Philosophy, School of Religions, Philosophy and Humanist Thought, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu India.
⁸ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chisinau, Moldova.
⁹ Department of Pharmacology, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, 570015 India.
¹⁰ Global Community Educational Foundation (NGCEF), 7 Peterlee Pl, Hebersham, NSW 2770 Australia.
¹¹ Division of Community Psychiatry, M. S. Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation, Madurai, India.
¹² Department of Biotechnology, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu 627012 India.
¹³ Department of Safety, Chemistry and Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Kronstad, Bergen, Norway.
¹⁴ Department of Gender and Sexualities, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta, Room # 114, Guze Cassar Pullicino Building, Msida, 2080 MSD Malta.
¹⁵ Deakin University, The Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT), School of Medicine, Barwon Health, Geelong, Australia.
¹⁶ Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY USA.
¹⁷ Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy, University of Mostar, Kampus Sveučilišta, Maticehrvatskeb. b, 88000 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
¹⁸ Centro Cardiovascular da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon School of Medicine, Av. Prof. Egas Moniz, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal.
¹⁹ Global Brain Health Institute at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA USA.
²⁰ Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
²¹ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA.
²² Neuroscience-Inspired Policy Initiative, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the PRODEO Institute and Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, Paris, France.
²³ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, TX USA.
²⁴ Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
²⁵ Faculty of Medical Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
²⁶ Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention, University of Zurich, Binzmuhlestr. 14/17, 8044 Zurich, Switzerland.
²⁷ Section of International Health Policy, Institute for Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
²⁸ Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA), Fordham University, Bronx, NY USA.
²⁹ Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, 1033 Pine Ave, Montreal, Canada.
³⁰ Trauma and Global Health Program, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC Canada.
³¹ Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
³² Norway and Norwegian Competence Center for Sleep Disorders, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
³³ Section of Global Health, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
³⁴ Athena Research Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³⁵ AArq International, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³⁶ Centro de Investigación Biomédica, Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Biotecnología, Parque Tecnológico de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Granada, 18016 Granada, Spain.
³⁷ Outbreak Research Team and Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerpen, Belgium.
³⁸ École de Psychologie, Centre d'étude des troubles du sommeil, Centrede recherche CERVO/Brain Research Center, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
³⁹ Helsinki Sleep Clinic, Terveystalo Healthcare, Valimotie 21, 00380 Helsinki, Finland.
⁴⁰ Department of Neurosciences, Clinicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
⁴¹ WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health and Service Evaluation, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
⁴² Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
⁴³ Research and Development Department, War Child Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴⁴ Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴⁵ Department of Transcultural Forensic Psychiatry, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
⁴⁶ Psychologische Psychotherapeutin, Klinisch-Psychologische Intervention, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaftund Psychologie, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
⁴⁷ Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Christiesgt.12, 5015 Bergen, Norway.
⁴⁸ Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Clinical Psychology, World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081BT Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁴⁹ Universidad Nacional de Quilmes/CONICET, R.S. Peña 352, 1876 Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁵⁰ Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵¹ Sir Jules Thorn Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi), Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford, OX1 3QU UK.
⁵² Department of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁵³ WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Dissemination of Psychological Interventions, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁵⁴ Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
⁵⁵ Centro de Neurología, Instituto de MedicinaComportamental del Sueño, Medellín, Colombia.
⁵⁶ Department of Public Health, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
⁵⁷ Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA.
⁵⁸ Stress Anxiety and Resilience Consultants-STAR, Sandy, UT 84092 USA.
⁵⁹ National Knowledge and Advisory Center on Migrants, Refugees and Health (Pharos), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁶⁰ Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁶¹ WINK Sleep Pty Ltd, Morphett Vale, Adelaide, 5162 Australia.
⁶² Leiter der Abteilung für Klinische Psychologie and Psychophysiologie, Zentrum für Psychische Erkrankungen, Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Hauptstr. 5, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
⁶³ Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
⁶⁴ Department Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
⁶⁵ Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñíz, Calzada México-Xochimilco No 101, Colonia San Lorenzo, Huipulco, 14370 Mexico City, CDMX México.
⁶⁶ International Trauma Center, Beverly Farms, Beverly, MA 01915 USA.
⁶⁷ Harvard Medical School-McLean Hospital Developmental Trauma, Boston, MA USA.
⁶⁸ Boston Children's Foundation, 850 Summer St, South Boston, MA 02127 USA.
⁶⁹ Department of Propedeutics of Internal Medicine, National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya, Ukraine.
⁷⁰ Baldaeus Theological College, Adukubar, Konesapuri, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.
⁷¹ Formally of Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, Karnataka India.
⁷² Bayerisches Zentrumfür Transkulturelle Medizin, Landshuter Allee 21, 80637 München, Germany.
⁷³ Department Psychiatry and Neurosciences CCM, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
⁷⁴ Midwifery Leadership Consultant, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁷⁵ Kingston University, London, UK.
⁷⁶ Department of Psychiatry, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5000 Australia.
⁷⁷ GGZ Ecademy Coöperatie UA, Keltenstraat 14, 5037 KD, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
⁷⁸ Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry (FGIP), P.O. Box 1956, 1200 BZ Hilversum, The Netherlands.
⁷⁹ Supervisor Capacity Building Community Mental Health Ukraine World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁸⁰ Formally of Department of Paediatrics, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
⁸¹ Institut für systemische Therapie und Beratung, Leisewitzstraße 26, 30175 Hannover, Germany.
⁸² DeutschesZentrum für Lungenforschung (DZL), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU), Gießen, Germany.
⁸³ Hochschule München, Eggenthal, Grub 4, 87653 München, Germany.
⁸⁴ Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Feursteinstr. 55, 78479 Reichenau, Germany.
⁸⁵ Zentrum für Psychiatrie Reichenau, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Universität Konstanz, Rechtsfähige Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts, Reichenau, Germany.
⁸⁶ Facharzt für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und -psychotherapie Systemischer Berater (SG), Systemischer Therapeut (SG), TU München, Klinikum rechts der Isar, München, Germany.
⁸⁷ Professor Emeritus, Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College, London, SE5 8AF UK.
⁸⁸ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada.

PMID: 35317215
PMCID: PMC8930284
DOI: 10.1007/s41782-022-00198-0

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Keywords: Global health diplomacy; Mental health; Military invasion; Peace; Russia; Scientist; Ukraine.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interestThe scientists who have authored this letter are doing so in their individual capacities, not on behalf of their institutions. The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following potential conflicts: S.R.Pandi-Perumal is a stockholder and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Somnogen Canada Inc, a Canadian corporation. He declares that he has no competing interests that might be perceived to influence the content of this article. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the journal policies. All remaining authors declare that they have no proprietary, financial, professional, nor any other personal interest of any nature or kind in any product or services and/or company that could be construed or considered to be a potential conflict of interest that might have influenced the views expressed in this manuscript.

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