  | GBD 2023 Mental Disorder Collaborators, KLYMCHUK, V., & GORBUNOVA, V. (23 May 2026). Updated trends in the global prevalence and burden of mental disorders, 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023. The Lancet, 407 (10543), 2040 - 2064. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(26)00519-2  Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
  | KLYMCHUK, V., Petrash, O., Vynogradova, O., GORBUNOVA, V., Kurpita, V., & Ko, S. (30 December 2025). Integrating mental health support into HIV prevention: An organizational framework for NGOs, informed by Ukraine’s experience. PLOS Mental Health, 2 (12), 0000516. doi:10.1371/journal.pmen.0000516 Peer reviewed |
 | KLYMCHUK, V. (2025). Ukraine: The national strategy for a barrier-free environment. In Good practices on disability-inclusive health: the WHO European framework to achieve the highest attainable standard of health for people with disabilities (pp. 16). Copenhagen, Denmark: WHO Regional Office for Europe. Editorial reviewed |
 | Weinreich, K. J., Frankova, I., Maksymets, N., Barbui, C., KLYMCHUK, V., Mooren, T., Olechno, E., Purgato, M., Sijbrandij, M., Witteveen, A. B., & van der Ven, E. (December 2025). Implementing scalable face-to-face and digital interventions among forcibly displaced persons from Ukraine in Europe: protocol of The U-RISE Project. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 16 (1), 2468117. doi:10.1080/20008066.2025.2468117 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | GORBUNOVA, V., KLYMCHUK, V., Romanchuk, V., & Ivanchuk, I. (2025). Effectiveness of Self-Help plus and problem management plus interventions in providing psychological support to clients of Opioid Agonist treatment programs in Ukraine. Addiction Research and Theory, 1-13. doi:10.1080/16066359.2025.2573341 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | GORBUNOVA, V., KLYMCHUK, V., & Faryma, O. (2025). Developing the Mental Health Sensitive School Concept: Insights from focus group discussions. PLOS Mental Health. doi:10.1371/journal.pmen.0000368 Peer reviewed Dataset: https://zenodo.org/records/14922811 |
 | Pfeiffer, E., Garbade, M., Beer, R., Birgersson, A., Cabrera, N., Cohen, J. A., Deblinger, E., Gjini, R., Kirsch, V., Kostova, Z., Larsson, M., Mannarino, A., Moffitt, G., Onsjö, M., Ostensjo, T., Vikgren, A., Weyler Mueller, H., KLYMCHUK, V., & Sachser, C. (2025). Evaluation of the Feasibility and Effectiveness of Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children and Youth in Ukraine During the War. European Psychiatry, 1 - 27. doi:10.1192/j.eurpsy.2025.10032 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Gaschet, M. A. P., Suvalo, O., & KLYMCHUK, V. (2025). Mental health stigma in Ukraine over time: A cross-sectional study. Global Mental Health, 1-19. doi:10.1017/gmh.2025.40 Peer reviewed |
 | KLYMCHUK, V., GORBUNOVA, V., Mazur, Gauf V., Borovets, B., Golotenko, A., Gorbanyova, O., Kolokolova, V., Nahorianska, I., Odintsova, A., Sokolenko, A., Chygrynska, L., & Zbitneva, O. (2025). System of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Ukraine: Strategic priorities and guidelines for the development of the mental health system in Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine: Coordination Center for Mental Health of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Editorial reviewed |
 | GORBUNOVA, V., & KLYMCHUK, V. (2025). Universal mental health training: policy proposal for Ukraine. Open Research Europe. doi:10.12688/openreseurope.20116.1 |
 | Olechno, E., Weinreich, K. J., Frankova, I., Purgato, M., Bartucz, M., Barbui, C., KLYMCHUK, V., Čavojská, K., Kucukozkan, E., Maximets, N., Mooren, T., Patania, F., Sijbrandij, M., Witteveen, A. B., & van der Ven, E. (2025). Mental health needs and implementation barriers for psychosocial support among forcibly displaced Ukrainians in Poland, Romania, and Slovakia: a qualitative analysis. Frontiers in Psychiatry, Volume 16 - 2025. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1623255 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | KLYMCHUK, V., Petrash, O., Vynogradova, O., GORBUNOVA, V., & Kurpita, V. (2025). Integration of mental health support in the routine work of community-based NGOs involved in HIV prevention in Ukraine: an observational study. Discover Medicine, 2 (1), 211. doi:10.1007/s44337-025-00451-1 Peer reviewed |
 | GORBUNOVA, V., KLYMCHUK, V., Romanchuk, V., & Ivanchuk, I. (2025). Prevalence of depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms among patients of opioid agonist treatment programmes in Ukraine during wartime {peer reviewed}. Mental Health Open, 1 (1), 3-16. doi:10.64257/xbcpx291 Peer reviewed |
 | KLYMCHUK, V. (2025). Child and youth mental health in the WHO European Region. In Child and youth mental health in the WHO European Region. WHO. Editorial reviewed |
 | Purgato, M., Bartucz, M., Turrini, G., Compri, B., Prina, E., Patania, F., Kucukozkan, E., Zubachova, A., Må ahončak, M., Čavojská, K., Koval, O., Lupea, G., KLYMCHUK, V., Maximets, N., Mediavilla, R., Ayuso-Mateos, J. L., Sijbrandij, M., Van Der Ven, E., Frankova, I., & Barbui, C. (06 December 2024). Assessing local service providers' needs for scaling up MHPSS interventions for Ukrainian refugees: Insights from Poland, Slovakia, and Romania. Global Mental Health, 11. doi:10.1017/gmh.2024.113 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
Palii, V., GORBUNOVA, V., & KLYMCHUK, V. (2024). Psychology in Ukraine. In The Handbook of International Psychology. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315682945-89 Editorial reviewed |
 | Dumchev, K., & KLYMCHUK, V. (2024). The Commission on mental health in Ukraine: areas for development. The Lancet Psychiatry. doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(24)00312-2 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | GORBUNOVA, V., KLYMCHUK, V., & SANTANGELO, P. (29 April 2024). Universal mental health training for frontline professionals (UMHT)’s feasibility analysis. Open Research Europe, 4, 96. doi:10.12688/openreseurope.17358.1 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi Dataset: https://zenodo.org/records/10926232 |
Law, R., KLYMCHUK, V., & GORBUNOVA, V. (2024). Interpersonal Psychotherapy in Ukraine. In M. Weissman & J. Mootz, Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Global Reach (pp. 285-289). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197652084.003.0035 Editorial reviewed |
 | GORBUNOVA, V., KLYMCHUK, V., Portnytska, N., Savychenko, O., Tychyna, I., & STEFFGEN, G. (2024). Universal mental health training for frontline professionals: evaluation of pilot trial in Ukraine. Open Research Europe, 4 (19). doi:10.12688/openreseurope.16941.1 |
 | KLYMCHUK, V., GORBUNOVA, V., & Iryna Ivanchuk. (2024). Prevalence of alcohol use and depressive/anxiety symptoms among patients of opioid agonist treatment programs in Ukraine. Academia Mental Health and Wellbeing, 1 (1). doi:10.20935/MHealthWellB6210 Peer reviewed |
 | KLYMCHUK, V., Vysotska, K., & GORBUNOVA, V. (2024). Mental Health and The City: A Tribute to Mariupol, the City that will be Reborn. Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict, 22 (1). doi:10.4103/intv.intv_34_23 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | De Zeeuw, J., Rupppa, F., KLYMCHUK, V., Königstein, H., Shields-Zeeman, L., Bolinski, F., Marinetti, C., Sanna, L., & Zuljevic-Salamon, T. (2024). Needs assessment to design a multidisciplinary training programme within the EU-PROMENS project. European Journal of Public Health, 34 (Supplement_3). doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckae144.2223 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Frankova, I., KLYMCHUK, V., Nickerson, A., Sijbrandij, M., & Amstadter, A. (2023). A summary of the 38th Annual International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Presidential Panel: How the traumatic stress community can assist individuals affected by the war in Ukraine. Journal of Traumatic Stress. doi:10.1002/jts.22945 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | DUJARDIN, C., KLYMCHUK, V., & GORBUNOVA, V. (2023). Mental health and homelessness in the social service providers' outlook (Luxembourg case). Mental Health and Social Inclusion. doi:10.1108/MHSI-02-2023-0018 Peer reviewed |
 | Shanaya Rathod, Saseendran Pallikadavath, Elizabeth Graves, Mohammad M Rahman, Ashlea Brooks, Pranay Rathod, Rachna Bhargava, Muhammad Irfan, Reham Aly, Haifa Mohammad Saleh Al Gahtani, Zahwa Salam, Steven Wai Ho Chau, Theone S E Paterson, Brianna Turner, Viktoria Gorbunova, Vitaly Klymchuk, Peter Phiri Rathod S, Pallikadavath S, Graves E, Rahman MM, Brooks A, Rathod P, Bhargava R, Irfan M, Aly R, Mohammad Saleh Al Gahtani H, Salam Z, Chau SWH, Paterson TSE, Turner B, Gorbunova V, Klymchuk V, Phiri P. , GORBUNOVA, V., & KLYMCHUK, V. (2023). Effects of cumulative COVID-19 cases on mental health: Evidence from multi-country survey. World Journal of Psychiatry. doi:10.5498/wjp.v13.i7.461 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | KLYMCHUK, V. (2023). The experience of launching a psychological hotline across 21 countries to support Ukrainians in wartime. Mental Health and Social Inclusion. doi:10.1108/MHSI-04-2023-0040 Peer reviewed |
 | Elisa Pfeiffer, Renée Beer, Anette Birgersson, Natalie Cabrera, Judith A. Cohen, Esther Deblinger, Maike Garbade, Veronica Kirsch, Zlatina Kostova, Michael Larsson, Anthony Mannarino, Gavin Moffitt, Marja Onsjö, Tale Ostensjo, Cedric Sachser, Anna Vikgren, Hanna Weyler Mueller & Vitaii Klymchuk* , & KLYMCHUK, V.*. (2023). Implementation of an evidence-based trauma-focused treatment for traumatised children and their families during the war in Ukraine: a project description. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. doi:10.1080/20008066.2023.2207422 Peer reviewed* These authors have contributed equally to this work. |
 | GORBUNOVA, V., KLYMCHUK, V., Savychenko, O., Palii, V., Kondur, Z., Popenko, V., & Oates, J. (2023). Depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and social determinants of mental health of Romani in Ukraine. Mental Health and Social Inclusion. doi:10.1108/MHSI-06-2023-0070 Peer reviewed |
 | GBD 2020 Alcohol Collaborators, & KLYMCHUK, V. (2022). Population-level risks of alcohol consumption by amount, geography, age, sex, and year: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020. The Lancet. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00847-9 Peer reviewed |
 | GBD 2019 Healthcare Access and Quality Collaborators, & KLYMCHUK, V. (2022). Assessing performance of the Healthcare Access and Quality Index, overall and by select age groups, for 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Lancet Global Health. doi:10.1016/s2214-109x(22)00429-6 Peer reviewed |
 | Quirke, E., KLYMCHUK, V., Gusak, N., GORBUNOVA, V., & Sukhovii, O. (2022). Applying the national mental health policy in conflict-affected regions: towards better social inclusion (Ukrainian case). Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 26 (3 2022-06-29T00:00:00), 242-256. doi:10.1108/mhsi-01-2022-0002 Peer reviewed |
  | KLYMCHUK, V., Vysotska, K., & GORBUNOVA, V. (2022). Decentralisation and community engagement for better mental health services development in the conflict-affected regions of Ukraine. Journal of Public Mental Health. doi:10.1108/jpmh-06-2022-0054 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
