Chapter title: Perception of mental illness in medical students

Author: Ingrid Vargas-Huicochea, Ph.D.

Affiliation: National Autonomous University of Mexico (U.N.A.M.), Mexico.

Author: Ana Carolina Rodríguez-Machain, Ph.D.

Affiliation: National Autonomous University of Mexico (U.N.A.M.), Mexico.

Author: Jacqueline Cortés Morelos, Ph.D.

Affiliation: National Autonomous University of Mexico (U.N.A.M.), Mexico.

Author: Nora Kelsall, M.A.

Affiliation: Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, U.S.

Author Biographies:

Ingrid Vargas-Huicochea is a research professor in Psychiatry and Mental Health

Department of the Faculty of Medicine at National Autonomous University of Mexico (U.N.A.M.) in Mexico City.

 

 

Ana Carolina Rodríguez-Machain is a Professor of Social Psychology at National Autonomous University of Mexico, and a member of the National Research System (SNI; affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University). Her research experience has focused on the area of school violence and aggressive behaviours among students. She has also collaborated on research projects related to mental health and substance abuse issues among students. Her recent work has focused on the perception of mental illness among students in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Dr. Jacqueline Cortés Morelos specializes in family and couples therapy, and child and adolescent psychiatry. She chairs the Psychiatry and Mental Health Clinic in the Faculty of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

 

 

Nora Clancy Kelsall completed her M.A. in epidemiology with a focus on neuropsychiatric epidemiology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is currently completing her second M.A. in the field of public health from Harvard University.