Dr. Ronald Kessler

Ronald Kessler, Ph.D.

McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
617-432-3587
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McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy

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Harvard Medical School
Dept of Health Care Policy
180 Longwood Ave  
Boston MA 02115

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Cross-national patterns of substance use disorder treatment and associations with mental disorder comorbidity in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys.
Authors: Harris MG, Bharat C, Glantz MD, Sampson NA, Al-Hamzawi A, Alonso J, Bruffaerts R, Caldas de Almeida JM, Cia AH, de Girolamo G, Florescu S, Gureje O, Haro JM, Hinkov H, Karam EG, Karam G, Lee S, Lépine JP, Levinson D, Makanjuola V, McGrath J, Mneimneh Z, Navarro-Mateu F, Piazza M, Posada-Villa J, Rapsey C, Tachimori H, Ten Have M, Torres Y, Viana MC, Chatterji S, Zaslavsky AM, Kessler RC, Degenhardt L.
Addiction
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Prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of common mental disorders among first-year university students in post-apartheid South Africa: implications for a public mental health approach to student wellness.
Authors: Bantjes J, Lochner C, Saal W, Roos J, Taljaard L, Page D, Auerbach RP, Mortier P, Bruffaerts R, Kessler RC, Stein DJ.
BMC Public Health
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Genome-wide analyses of psychological resilience in U.S. Army soldiers.
Authors: Stein MB, Choi KW, Jain S, Campbell-Sills L, Chen CY, Gelernter J, He F, Heeringa SG, Maihofer AX, Nievergelt C, Nock MK, Ripke S, Sun X, Kessler RC, Smoller JW, Ursano RJ.
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet
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Association of Cohort and Individual Substance Use With Risk of Transitioning to Drug Use, Drug Use Disorder, and Remission From Disorder: Findings From the World Mental Health Surveys.
Authors: Degenhardt L, Bharat C, Glantz MD, Sampson NA, Al-Hamzawi A, Alonso J, Andrade LH, Bunting B, Cia A, de Girolamo G, De Jonge P, Demyttenaere K, Gureje O, Haro JM, Harris MG, He Y, Hinkov H, Karam AN, Karam EG, Kiejna A, Kovess-Masfety V, Lasebikan V, Lee S, Levinson D, Medina-Mora ME, Mneimneh Z, Navarro-Mateu F, Piazza M, Posada-Villa J, Scott K, Stein DJ, Tachimori H, Tintle N, Torres Y, Kessler RC.
JAMA Psychiatry
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Depression: more treatment but no drop in prevalence: how effective is treatment? And can we do better?
Authors: Ormel J, Kessler RC, Schoevers R.
Curr Opin Psychiatry
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Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of an unguided, internet-based self-help intervention for social anxiety disorder in university students: protocol of a randomized controlled trial.
Authors: Kählke F, Berger T, Schulz A, Baumeister H, Berking M, Cuijpers P, Bruffaerts R, Auerbach RP, Kessler RC, Ebert DD.
BMC Psychiatry
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Clinical Epidemiological Research on Suicide-Related Behaviors-Where We Are and Where We Need to Go.
Authors: Kessler RC.
JAMA Psychiatry
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Association of Firearm Ownership, Use, Accessibility, and Storage Practices With Suicide Risk Among US Army Soldiers.
Authors: Dempsey CL, Benedek DM, Zuromski KL, Riggs-Donovan C, Ng THH, Nock MK, Kessler RC, Ursano RJ.
JAMA Netw Open
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Barriers of mental health treatment utilization among first-year college students: First cross-national results from the WHO World Mental Health International College Student Initiative.
Authors: Ebert DD, Mortier P, Kaehlke F, Bruffaerts R, Baumeister H, Auerbach RP, Alonso J, Vilagut G, Martínez KI, Lochner C, Cuijpers P, Kuechler AM, Green J, Hasking P, Lapsley C, Sampson NA, Kessler RC.
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res
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Internet interventions for mental health in university students: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Authors: Harrer M, Adam SH, Baumeister H, Cuijpers P, Karyotaki E, Auerbach RP, Kessler RC, Bruffaerts R, Berking M, Ebert DD.
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res
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