About the Authors

Barnabas J. Gilbert

Affiliation Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vikram Patel

Affiliations Department for Population Health, Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Centre for the Control of Chronic Conditions, Public Health Foundation of India, Gurgaon, India

Paul E. Farmer

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Chunling Lu

Chunling_Lu@hms.harvard.edu

Affiliation Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

VP is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: BJG VP PEF CL. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: BJG VP PEF CL. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.