Global Burden of Disease Blog Posts

• The hidden health burden of intimate partner and child sexual violence

  16 Jun 2026

  • Jack Wainwright

  
• A global perspective on personality disorders: common, deadly and underestimated

  11 Feb 2026

  • Kirsten Lawson

  
• Global alcohol consumption: why the world is failing to meet the WHO’s reduction target

  13 Nov 2025

  • Ian Hamilton

  
• Global insights into youth mental health prevalence: challenges and future directions

  15 May 2025

  • Shuwen Su

  
• The global burden of disease from mental disorders remains high

  12 Apr 2022

  • Alejandro Arguelles Bullon

  
• Suicide in women: laws that discriminate against women may explain higher rates in low and middle income countries

  01 Apr 2022

  • Grace Crowley

  
• COVID-19 increased depression and anxiety disorders by >25% during 2020

  08 Mar 2022

  • Dona Matthews

  
• Preventing depression: what do we need to succeed?

  14 Apr 2020

  • Emma Corcoran
  • Molly Bird
  • and Natalie Shoham

  
• The rapid increase in global mental illness: fake news?

  01 Apr 2020

  • UCL Psychiatry MSc

  
• Global mental health and its implicit priorities

  11 Jun 2019

  • Tessa Roberts