Mental Health Policy in the Era of COVID-19

Matthew L Goldman1, Benjamin G Druss1, Marcela Horvitz-Lennon1

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (Goldman); Rollins School of Public Health (Druss) and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Norquist), Emory University, Atlanta; RAND Corporation, Boston, and Health Equity Research Lab, Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Horvitz-Lennon); Department of Policies, Programs, and Partnerships, American Psychiatric Association, Washington, D.C. (Kroeger Ptakowski); Indiana Department of Mental Health and Addiction, Indianapolis (Brinkley); Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York (Greiner); Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Oklahoma City (Hayes); National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, Alexandria, Virginia (Hepburn); Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City (Jorgensen); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina (Swartz); Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York (Dixon).

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