Strengthening public mental health during and after the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Neurosciences and Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan 5116, Nigeria; BRiTE Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Electronic address: lola_kola2004@yahoo.com.
² Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya; Department of Psychology, University College London, London, UK.
³ Division of Global Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
⁴ WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Neurosciences and Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan 5116, Nigeria.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry and Department of Health Promotion and Education, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Lola Kola et al. Lancet. 2022.

. 2022 May 14;399(10338):1851-1852.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00523-2. Epub 2022 Mar 24.

¹ WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Neurosciences and Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan 5116, Nigeria; BRiTE Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Electronic address: lola_kola2004@yahoo.com.
² Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya; Department of Psychology, University College London, London, UK.
³ Division of Global Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
⁴ WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Neurosciences and Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan 5116, Nigeria.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry and Department of Health Promotion and Education, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

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