Refugees in east Africa suffer from high levels of depression, making it harder to rebuild lives – new study

By Olivier Sterck, Senior Research Officer, University of Oxford
Julia R Pozuelo, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University
Maria Flinder Stierna, PhD candidate, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Raphael Bradenbrink, PhD candidate, University of Oxford

By the end of 2023, more than 100 million people globally had been forced to flee their homes due to war, violence, fear of persecution, and human rights violations.

The majority are hosted in low- and middle-income countries, where many live in overcrowded camps or urban settlements, with limited access to food, employment and essential services.…

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