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María Elena Medina-Mora is affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico and focuses on research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Medicine. Their scholarship spans multiple subfields including Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and General Health Professions.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research

Medina-Mora has published extensively in a variety of journals. Notable frequent publication venues include:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Salud Mental
  • International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Among recent papers are:

  • Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: a cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries, 2023, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines (LRCUG) for reducing health harms from non-medical cannabis use: A comprehensive evidence and recommendations update, 2021, International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Mental health problems among healthcare workers involved with the COVID-19 outbreak, 2020, Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
  • Same-day initiation of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis among gay, bisexual, and other cisgender men who have sex with men and transgender women in Brazil, Mexico, and Peru (ImPrEP): a prospective, single-arm, open-label, multicentre implementation study, 2022, The Lancet HIV
  • Diagnostic classification of irritability and oppositionality in youth: a global field study comparing ICD-11 with ICD-10 and DSM-5, 2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators in Medina-Mora's work include:

  • Corina Benjet
  • Ronald C. Kessler
  • Oye Gureje
  • Dan J. Stein
  • Jordi Alonso

Best Publications

  • Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Theo Vos;Rafael Lozano;Mohsen Naghavi

  • Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Mohsen Naghavi;Rafael Lozano

  • Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.

    Demyttenaere K;Bruffaerts R;Posada-Villa J;Gasquet I

  • The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development.

    Vikram Patel;Shekhar Saxena;Crick Lund;Crick Lund;Graham Thornicroft

  • Cross-National Prevalence and Risk Factors for Suicidal Ideation, Plans, and Attempts

    Matthew K. Nock;Guilherme Borges;Evelyn J. Bromet;Jordi Alonso

  • Prevalence and correlates of bipolar spectrum disorder in the world mental health survey initiative.

    Kathleen R. Merikangas;Robert Jin;Jian-Ping He;Ronald C. Kessler

  • The epidemiology of traumatic event exposure worldwide: results from the World Mental Health Survey Consortium.

    C. Benjet;E. Bromet;E. G. Karam;R. C. Kessler

  • Social determinants of mental disorders and the Sustainable Development Goals: a systematic review of reviews

    Crick Lund;Crick Lund;Carrie Brooke-Sumner;Carrie Brooke-Sumner;Florence Baingana;Emily Claire Baron

  • Twelve-Month Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    Guilherme Borges;Matthew K. Nock;Josep Maria Haro Abad;Irving Hwang

  • Excess mortality in persons with severe mental disorders: a multilevel intervention framework and priorities for clinical practice, policy and research agendas

    Nancy H. Liu;Nancy H. Liu;Gail L. Daumit;Tarun Dua;Ralph Aquila

  • Innovations and changes in the ICD-11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders

    Geoffrey M. Reed;Michael B. First;Cary S. Kogan;Steven E. Hyman

  • Treatment gap for anxiety disorders is global: Results of the World Mental Health Surveys in 21 countries

    Jordi Alonso;Zhaorui Liu;Sara Evans-Lacko;Sara Evans-Lacko;Ekaterina Sadikova

  • Association of Mental Disorders With Subsequent Chronic Physical Conditions: World Mental Health Surveys From 17 Countries

    Kate M. Scott;Carmen Lim;Ali Al-Hamzawi;Jordi Alonso

  • Days out of role due to common physical and mental conditions: results from the WHO World Mental Health surveys

    J. Alonso;M. Petukhova;G. Vilagut;S. Chatterji

  • CUMULATIVE TRAUMAS AND RISK THRESHOLDS: 12-MONTH PTSD IN THE WORLD MENTAL HEALTH (WMH) SURVEYS

    Elie G. Karam;Matthew J. Friedman;Eric D. Hill;Ronald C Kessler

  • Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: a cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries.

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  • Disability and treatment of specific mental and physical disorders across the world.

    Johan Ormel;Maria Petukhova;Somnath Chatterji;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola

  • Mental disorders among persons with heart disease - results from World Mental Health surveys.

    Johan Ormel;Michael Von Korff;Huibert Burger;Kate Scott

  • Prevalencia y diagnóstico de depresión en población adulta en México

    Mariana Belló;Esteban Puentes-Rosas;María Elena Medina-Mora;Rafael Lozano

  • Evaluating the drug use “gateway” theory using cross-national data: Consistency and associations of the order of initiation of drug use among participants in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Louisa Degenhardt;Lisa Dierker;Lisa Dierker;Wai Tat Chiu;Maria Elena Medina-Mora

  • Dissonant health transition in the states of Mexico, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Héctor Gómez-Dantés;Nancy Fullman;Héctor Lamadrid-Figueroa;Lucero Cahuana-Hurtado

  • Lifetime prevalence and age of onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Mental Health Survey Initiative.

    Ronald C Kessler;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Jordi Alonso;Matthias C Angermeyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Chiyi Hu
Chiyi Hu University of California, Davis
Peter de Jonge
Peter de Jonge University of Groningen
Evelyn J. Bromet
Evelyn J. Bromet Stony Brook University
Geoffrey M. Reed
Geoffrey M. Reed Columbia University
Robin Room
Robin Room La Trobe University
Viviane Kovess-Masfety
Viviane Kovess-Masfety Université Paris Cité
Joshua Breslau
Joshua Breslau RAND Corporation
Louisa Degenhardt
Louisa Degenhardt University of New South Wales
José Luis Ayuso-Mateos
José Luis Ayuso-Mateos Autonomous University of Madrid
Michael C. Roberts
Michael C. Roberts University of Kansas

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