War in Ethiopia: addressing mental health needs to be made a priority

By Abel Fekadu Dadi, Outstanding Future Researcher, Menzies School of Health Research
Tesfaye B. Mersha, PhD, Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's, University of Cincinnati

The effects of war on the mental wellbeing of people is given much less attention than the physical harms of conflict.

We have been researching and working on the mental health challenges faced by different sub-populations. In a recent opinion piece in The Lancet our group applied some of our earlier findings to the situation in Ethiopia.

The country is the second most populous in Africa. It has a total population…

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