Development of a scalable mental healthcare plan for a rural district in Ethiopia

Abebaw Fekadu¹, Charlotte Hanlon², Girmay Medhin²+12

• ¹Abebaw Fekadu, MD, PhD, MRCPsych, Department of Psychiatry, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Department of Psychological Medicine, Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and Centre for Global Mental Health, Health Services and Population Research Department, King's College London, London, UK; Charlotte Hanlon, PhD, MRCPsych, Department of Psychiatry, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Centre for Global Mental Health, Health Services and Population Research Department, King's College London, London, UK; Girmay Medhin, PhD, Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Atalay Alem, MD, PhD, Medhin Selamu, MA, Department of Psychiatry, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Tedla W. Giorgis, PhD, Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Teshome Shibre, MD, PhD, Solomon Teferra, MD, PhD, Teketel Tegegn, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Erica Breuer, MPH, Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Vikram Patel, PhD, MRCPsych, Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Centre for Mental Health, the Public Health Foundation of India and Sangath, Alto-Porvorim, Goa India; Mark Tomlinson, PhD, Stellenbosch University and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Graham Thornicroft, PhD, FRCPsych, Martin Prince, MD, FRCPsych, Centre for Global Mental Health, Health Services and Population Research Department, King's College London, London, UK; Crick Lund, PhD, Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, and Centre for Global Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK abe.wassie@kcl.ac.uk.+1