About the Authors

Tarun Dua

Affiliation Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland

Corrado Barbui

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Nicolas Clark

Affiliation Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland

Alexandra Fleischmann

Affiliation Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland

Vladimir Poznyak

Affiliation Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland

Mark van Ommeren

Affiliation Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland

M. Taghi Yasamy

Affiliation Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland

Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos

Affiliation Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain

Gretchen L. Birbeck

Affiliation International Neurologic and Psychiatric Epidemiology Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America; Epilepsy Care Team, Chikankata Hospital, Mazabuka, Zambia

Colin Drummond

Affiliation Department of Addiction, National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Melvyn Freeman

Affiliation Cluster Manager, Non-communicable Diseases, National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa

Panteleimon Giannakopoulos

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva, Geneva; Department of Psychiatry, Division of Old Age Psychiatry, Hospices-CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland

Itzhak Levav

Affiliation Mental Health Services, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel

Isidore S. Obot

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria

Olayinka Omigbodun

Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Ibadan & University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria

Vikram Patel

Affiliation Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom; Sangath, Goa, India

Michael Phillips

Affiliation Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; Departments of Psychiatry and Global Health, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Martin Prince

Affiliation King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Health Service and Population Research Department, London, United Kingdom

Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar

Affiliation Iranian Research Center for HIV/AIDS, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Atif Rahman

Affiliation University of Liverpool, Institute of Psychology, Health & Society; Child Mental Health Unit, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Josemir W. Sander

Affiliation UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom, SEIN – Epilepsy Institute in the Netherlands Foundation, Heemstede, The Netherlands

John B. Saunders

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Chiara Servili

Affiliation Child and Adolescent Health and Development, WHO Eritrea, Asmara, Eritrea

Thara Rangaswamy

Affiliation Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF), Chennai, India

Jürgen Unützer

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University of Washington Medical Center; UW AIMS Center; IMPACT Implementation Program, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Peter Ventevogel

Affiliation HealthNet TPO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Lakshmi Vijayakumar

Affiliation SNEHA and Voluntary Health Services, Chennai, India

Graham Thornicroft

Affiliation Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Shekhar Saxena

saxenas@who.int

GT and SS are joint last authors.

Affiliation Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

JLA was paid in 2007 by Lundbeck S.A. for consultancy preparation of the research protocol for a study on the diagnostic delay in first episode of depression in contact with health care centers in Spain and was paid in 2009 by Sanofi Aventis S.A. for expert testimony on the side effects of veralapride. OO is the current President of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) (http://www.iacapap.org/). JWS served on scientific advisory boards for GlaxoSmithKline (2010), Eisai (2009), and UCB (2009); received funding for travel from UCB (2008) and Janssen (2009); serves on the editorial boards of Lancet Neurology, Epilepsia and Epileptic Disorders; served on the speaker's bureaus of UCB (2009) and GlaxoSmithKline (2009); and has received research support from UCB (grant finished 2010), Eisai (grant finished 2008), the NIH (ongoing grant), the EU FP7 (ongoing grant), the Wellcome Trust (grant finished 2009), WHO (ongoing grant), the National Epilepsy Funds of the Netherlands (ongoing grant), and the Epilepsy Society (ongoing grant). His current position is endowed by the National Society for Epilepsy (UK). SS confirms that the competing interests of JWS were declared, reviewed, and deemed acceptable by the mhGAP Guideline Development Group. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: TD CB NC AF VP MvO MTY GT SS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: TD CB NC AF VP MvO MTY GT SS JLA GLB CD MF PG IL ISO OO VP MiP MaP ARM AR JWS JBS CS TR JU PV LV. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: TD CB NC AF VP MvO MTY GT SS JLA GLB CD MF PG IL ISO OO VP MiP MaP ARM AR JWS JBS CS TR JU PV LV. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: TD CB NC AF VP MvO MTY GT SS JLA GLB CD MF PG IL ISO OO VP MiP MaP ARM AR JWS JBS CS TR JU PV LV.