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Overview

Oye Gureje is affiliated with the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and has contributed extensively to research in psychology and medicine. Their work largely focuses on clinical psychology, social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, public health, and general health professions.

Their main research topics include:

  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Gureje has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Psychological Medicine
  • International Journal of Mental Health Systems
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • World Psychiatry
  • BJPsych Open

Some of the recent notable publications include:

  • COVID-19 mental health impact and responses in low-income and middle-income countries: reimagining global mental health (2021) published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Age of onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: a cross-national analysis of population surveys from 29 countries (2023) published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Efficacy of psychosocial interventions for mental health outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries: an umbrella review (2020) published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Comorbidity within mental disorders: a comprehensive analysis based on 145,990 survey respondents from 27 countries (2020) published in Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
  • An organization- and category-level comparison of diagnostic requirements for mental disorders in ICD-11 and DSM-5 (2021) published in World Psychiatry

Gureje frequently collaborates with other researchers including:

  • Fernando Navarro-Mateu
  • Jordi Alonso
  • Akin Ojagbemi
  • Josep María Haro
  • Viviane Kovess-Masféty

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • The validity of two versions of the GHQ in the WHO study of mental illness in general health care

    David P. Goldberg;R. Gater;N. Sartorius;T. B. Ustun

  • 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

  • High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution

    Margaret E. Kruk;Anna D. Gage;Catherine Arsenault;Keely Jordan

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

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

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

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

    Ronald C Kessler;Matthias Angermeyer;James C Anthony;Ron De Graaf

  • Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Ronald C. Kessler;Katie A. McLaughlin;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J. Gruber

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • Persistent pain and well-being: a World Health Organization Study in Primary Care.

    O Gureje;M Von Korff;G E Simon;R Gater

  • Use of mental health services for anxiety, mood, and substance disorders in 17 countries in the WHO world mental health surveys

    Philip S Wang;Philip S Wang;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Jordi Alonso;Matthias C Angermeyer

  • Mental disorders among college students in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.

    R. P. Auerbach;J. Alonso;W. G. Axinn;P. Cuijpers

  • Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults

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  • Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Ronald C. Kessler;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Jordi Alonso;Corina Benjet

  • Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative

    Ronald C Kessler;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J Gruber;Nancy A. Sampson

  • 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

  • Common Chronic Pain Conditions in Developed and Developing Countries: Gender and Age Differences and Comorbidity With Depression-Anxiety Disorders

    Adley Tsang;Michael Von Korff;Sing Lee;Jordi Alonso

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Barriers to improvement of mental health services in low-income and middle-income countries

    Benedetto Saraceno;Mark van Ommeren;Rajaie Batniji;Alex Cohen

  • Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    K.C. Kessler;K.A. McLaughlin;J. Greif-Green;M.J. Gruber

  • Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative: Screening for Serious Mental Illness

    Ronald C. Kessler;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J. Gruber;Nancy A. Sampson

  • Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative RESEARCH REPORT

    Ronald C. Kessler;Matthias Angermeyer;James C. Anthony;Ron De Graaf

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald C. Kessler
Ronald C. Kessler Harvard University
Jordi Alonso
Jordi Alonso Pompeu Fabra University
Josep Maria Haro
Josep Maria Haro University of Barcelona
Jose Posada-Villa
Jose Posada-Villa Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca
Giovanni de Girolamo
Giovanni de Girolamo Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli
Kate M. Scott
Kate M. Scott University of Otago
Sing Lee
Sing Lee Chinese University of Hong Kong
Evelyn J. Bromet
Evelyn J. Bromet Stony Brook University
Nancy A. Sampson
Nancy A. Sampson Harvard University

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