Reducing the global burden of depression: a Lancet-World Psychiatric Association Commission

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Funding Acknowledgements

The University of Melbourne has contributed support to the work of the Lancet-World Psychiatric Association Commission on Depression through the Office of the Vice Chancellor and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. The Commissioners are: Helen Herrman (The World Psychiatric Association, Switzerland, The University of Melbourne and Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, Australia), Vikram Patel (Harvard Medical School, India/USA), Patrick McGorry (Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health and The Univer sity of Melbourne, Australia), Michael Berk (Deakin University, Australia), Dixon Chibanda (University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe), Pim Cuijpers (VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Christopher Dowrick (University of Liverpool, UK), Ellen Frank (Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, USA), Toshiaki A Furukawa (Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine/School of Public Health, Japan), Christina Hoven (Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, USA), Louise Howard (King's College London, UK), Ronald Kessler (Harvard Medical School, USA), Christian Kieling (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Martin Knapp (London School of Economics, UK), Mario Maj (University of Naples SUN, Italy), Helen Mayberg (Emory University School of Medicine, USA), Brenda Penninx (VU University Medical Center, the Netherlands), Charles F Reynolds (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA), Madhukar Trivedi (The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA), Lakshmi Vijayakumar (Sneha, Suicide Prevention Centre and Voluntary Health Services, India), and Myrna Weissman (Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, USA).