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Received: 25 September 2017

Accepted: 12 January 2018

First Online: 26 February 2018

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: Zeina Chemali, MD, MPH is the Director of the Neuropsychiatry Clinics and Training in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She also directs the Global Neuropsychiatry Outreach program for the Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry at MGH. Dr. Chemali has been involved in medical peace work for decades, particularly in the Middle East.Hannah Smati is an A.B. Degree candidate in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, with a secondary in Comparative Literature. She is a student researcher at the Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry at MGH.Kelsey Johnson is a research assistant in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center. She is a graduate student in the School of Public Health at Boston University.Christina P.C. Borba, PhD, MPH is Director of Research in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Borba has extensive experience in mixed methods research, teaching and training.Gregory L. Fricchione, MD is the Director of the Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry, Director of the Division of Psychiatry and Medicine and Director of the Benson- Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He is also the Gary Gottlieb, MD, Partners Healthcare Chair in Global and Community Health and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

: The studies in this report were reviewed by MGH Institution Review Board and the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs and were approved under protocol (2015P000489).

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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