Ronny Bruffaerts
Associate Professor, Center for Public Health Psychiatry, Universitair Psychiatrisch Centrum - KU Leuven.
Ph.D., Medical Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Research Interests: Dr. Bruffaerts is a clinical and experimental psychologist with a PhD in Medical Sciences. His main research field is psychiatric epidemiology, with a research focus on prevalence, incidence, and persistence of mental disorders in large population-representative samples and cohorts. Other interests include use of services for and societal burden of mental disorders.
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Mortier, Philippe, William G. Axinn, Ronny Bruffaerts, Beth-Ellen Pennell, Ronald C. Kessler, Randy P. Auerbach, Jordi Alonso, Pim Cuijpers, et al. Forthcoming. "Suicidal thoughts and behaviors among college students and same-aged peers: results from the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys." Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology.
Alonso, J., Steven Heeringa, Michael Schoenbaum, Ronny Bruffaerts, Ronald C. Kessler, G. Vilagut, S. Chatterji, T. Bedirhan Üstün, et al. 2011. "Including information about co-morbidity in estimates of disease burden: results from the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys." Psychological medicine, 41(4): 873-886.
Alonso, J., David R. Williams, Steven Heeringa, Ronny Bruffaerts, Karolyn Scott, Ronald C. Kessler, M. Petukhova, G. Vilagut, et al. 2010. "Days out of role due to common physical and mental conditions: results from the WHO World Mental Health surveys." Molecular psychiatry, 16(12): 1234-1246.
Stein, D.J., David R. Williams, Ronny Bruffaerts, Yuan He, Karolyn Scott, Zeina N. Mneimneh, Ronald C. Kessler, W.T. Chiu, et al. 2010. "Cross-national analysis of the associations between traumatic events and suicidal behavior: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys." PloS one, 5: e10574.
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