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Dr Corina Benjet is a researcher at the National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz (INPRFM), Mexico. She is also a professor in the graduate programmes of the School of Psychology and the Medical School at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and coordinator of the graduate programme in Public Mental Health. She has done research sabbaticals at the Child Conduct Clinic of Yale University, the Mood Disorders Lab of Stanford University and in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include adolescent and young adult mental health, exposure to traumatic events, substance use and suicidal behavior, and digital mental health interventions for anxiety and depression. Dr Benjet was the principal investigator of the first and currently only representative psychiatric epidemiological survey of the general adolescent population in Mexico City and a longitudinal follow-up of the adolescent survey to evaluate the incidence, persistence and risk factors in the transition from adolescence to early adulthood. More recently, she is conducting the WMH-International College Student survey in 13 Mexican universties and a large clinical trial of digital interventions for depression and anxiety among students of eight universities in Mexico and Colombia.