About the Authors

Wietse A. Tol

wtol@jhu.edu

Affiliation Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Corrado Barbui

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Jonathan Bisson

Affiliation Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Judith Cohen

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Allegheny General Hospital, Drexel University College of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Zeinab Hijazi

Affiliation International Medical Corps, Santa Monica, California, and Washington, D.C., United States of America

Lynne Jones

Affiliation FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joop T. V. M. de Jong

Affiliation Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Nicola Magrini

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Evidence-based Research Synthesis and Guideline Development, Bologna, Italy

Olayinka Omigbodun

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan and University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria

Soraya Seedat

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

Derrick Silove

Affiliation School of Psychiatry and Ingham Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Renato Souza

Affiliation Institute of Psychiatry, Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

Athula Sumathipala

Affiliation Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom & Institute for Research and Development, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Lakshmi Vijayakumar

Affiliation SNEHA, Voluntary Health Services, Department of Psychiatry, Chennai, India

Inka Weissbecker

Affiliation International Medical Corps, Santa Monica, California, and Washington, D.C., United States of America

Douglas Zatzick

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, United States of America

Mark van Ommeren

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

Competing Interests

SS is a member of the editorial board of PLOS ONE. MvO is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine.

Author Contributions

Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: WAT. Wrote the paper: WAT CB JB JC ZH LJ JTVMdJ NM OO SS DS RS AS LV IW DZ MvO. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: WAT CB JB JC ZH LJ JTVMdJ NM OO SS DS RS AS LV IW DZ MvO. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: WAT CB JB JC ZH LJ JTVMdJ NM OO SS DS RS AS LV IW DZ MvO. Members of the Guideline Development Group (GDG): JB JC ZH JTVMdJ (chair) OO SS DS RS AS LV IW DZ. WHO Secretariat: MvO. Consultants to the GDG: WT CB LJ NM.