About the Authors

Vikram Patel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

vikram_patel@hms.harvard.edu

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

Daisy Fancourt

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Toshi A. Furukawa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Lola Kola

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Mental Health, Neuroscience and Substance Abuse, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: VP serves on the PLOS Medicine Editorial Board. TAF reports personal fees from Boehringer-Ingelheim, DT Axis, Kyoto University Original, Shionogi and SONY, and a grant from Shionogi, outside the submitted work; In addition, TAF has patents 2020-548587 and 2022-082495 pending, and intellectual properties for Kokoro-app licensed to Mitsubishi-Tanabe.