Mental health in the post-COVID-19 era: challenges and the way forward

• Samer El Hayek,
• Drita Gashi Bytyçi,
• Victor Pereira-Sanchez,
• Ramdas Ransing,
• Andre Luiz Schuh Teixeira,
• Ganesh Kudva Kundadak,
• Ramyadarshni Vadivel,
• Sheikh Shoib,
• Sarah El Halabi,
• Lamiaà Essam,
• Ruta Karaliuniene,
• Sachin Nagendrappa,
• Rodrigo Ramalho,
• Chonnakarn Jatchavala,
• Frances Nkechi Adiukwu

Affiliations

Samer El Hayek

4 Department of Psychiatry, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Drita Gashi Bytyçi

3 Mental Health Center Prizren, Hospital and University Clinical Service of Kosovo, Prizren, Kosovo

Victor Pereira-Sanchez

9 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

Ramdas Ransing

13 Department of Psychiatry, BKL Walawalkar Rural Medical College, Sawarde, Ratnagiri, India

Andre Luiz Schuh Teixeira

14 Department of Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Ganesh Kudva Kundadak

18 Early Psychosis Intervention Programme, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore

Ramyadarshni Vadivel

Department of Mental Health and Addictions, Waikato District Health Board, Hamilton, New Zealand

Sheikh Shoib

Department of Psychiatry, Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Hospital, Rainawari, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Sarah El Halabi

Department of Narrative Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

Lamiaà Essam

El Demerdash Teaching Hospital, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Ruta Karaliuniene

Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Sachin Nagendrappa

National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Rodrigo Ramalho

Department of Social and Community Health, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Chonnakarn Jatchavala

Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand

Frances Nkechi Adiukwu

Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria