About the Authors
- Vikram Patel
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Affiliations Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Sangath, Goa, India
- Rachel Jenkins
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Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology and International Mental Health Policy, WHO Collaborating Centre, Kings College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
- Crick Lund
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Affiliation Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- the PLoS Medicine Editors
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* E-mail: medicine_editors@plos.org
Competing Interests
RJ, CL, and VP are guest editors of the PLoS Medicine series on global mental health practice. RJ and VP are members of the PLoS Medicine editorial board. The PLoS Medicine Editors' individual competing interests are at http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/editorsInterests.action. PLoS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLoS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salary is not linked to the number of papers published in the journal).
Author Contributions
Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: JC VP. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: VB RJ CL PS EV. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: VB JC RJ CL VP PS EV.