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Janis H. Jenkins
Janis Hunter Jenkins is an American Psychological and Medical Anthropologist. She is Distinguished Professor at the University of California San Diego, on faculty in the Departments of Anthropology, Psychiatry, and the Global Health Program. She is Director for the Center for Global Mental Health at UCSD.
Jenkins' research has contributed to the fields of psychological/medical anthropology, cultural psychiatry, global mental health, and culture and emotion. Her research explores how cultural processes and structural institutions shape the experience, course, and outcome of mental health and illness. She has conducted interdisciplinary research among various populations including Mexican immigrants/migrants, Salvadoran refugees, Vietnamese and Iraqi Kurdish refugees, Puerto Rican migrants, Euro-American, Native-American, and African-American populations.
Janis H. Jenkins received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed post-doctoral training as a Fellow in the NIMH-funded program entitled "Clinically Relevant Medical Anthropology" at Harvard Medical School.
Jenkins was appointed Assistant Research Anthropologist in The Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. She joined the faculty in the Department of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University, and served as Director of the Women's Studies Program. She is currently a faculty member in the Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry at UCSD, and Director of the Center for Global Mental Health.
Jenkins has been awarded several visiting and scholarly appointments including Visiting Scholar-in residence at the Russell Sage Foundation, Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Social Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Research Fellow at the American Philosophical Society, Member-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study, Distinguished Visiting Faculty at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and Visiting Scholar for the Writing Residency of the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy.
Jenkins has been recipient of the Young Investigator Award by the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression. She received the Stirling Award in 1990 by the Society for Psychological Anthropology for the article "Anthropology, Expressed Emotion, and Schizophrenia." She serves on the editorial board of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry: An International Journal of Cross-Cultural Comparative Research, and Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. She is the President of the American Anthropological Association's Society for Psychological Anthropology.
She has been awarded research funding from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health as Principal Investigator for a study on "Sociocultural Factors and Course of Persistent Mental Illness, National Institute of Mental Health" (NIMH Grant MH 47920; 1990–1996) and "Culture, Schizophrenia, and Atypical Antipsychotics" (NIMH Grant R01 MH 60232; 1999–2004), Co-Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator, "Southwest Youth & Experience of Psychiatric Treatment" (NIMH Grant: R01 MH071781). Jenkins served as a member of three scientific review groups for NIMH ("Emotion and Personality," 1993–1994; "Social, Personality, & Group Processes," 1994–1998; and "Treatment and Services," 2003–2005).
In other sources of funding, Jenkins has been awarded research grants for studies on "Cultural Perceptions of Adolescent 'Bienestar Emocional' (Emotional Well-Being) and Patterns of Help Seeking: An Anthropological Study in Tijuana, Mexico" (University of California, San Diego, Faculty Senate Grant, 2016–2018); "Well-Being and Mental Health of Adolescents: Community Collaboration and Technological Innovations" (Grant C6009, Frontiers of Innovation Scholars Program, Office Research Affairs, University of California, San Diego, 2017–2020), as well as doctoral dissertation research grants from the National Science Foundation.
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Janis H. Jenkins
Janis Hunter Jenkins is an American Psychological and Medical Anthropologist. She is Distinguished Professor at the University of California San Diego, on faculty in the Departments of Anthropology, Psychiatry, and the Global Health Program. She is Director for the Center for Global Mental Health at UCSD.
Jenkins' research has contributed to the fields of psychological/medical anthropology, cultural psychiatry, global mental health, and culture and emotion. Her research explores how cultural processes and structural institutions shape the experience, course, and outcome of mental health and illness. She has conducted interdisciplinary research among various populations including Mexican immigrants/migrants, Salvadoran refugees, Vietnamese and Iraqi Kurdish refugees, Puerto Rican migrants, Euro-American, Native-American, and African-American populations.
Janis H. Jenkins received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed post-doctoral training as a Fellow in the NIMH-funded program entitled "Clinically Relevant Medical Anthropology" at Harvard Medical School.
Jenkins was appointed Assistant Research Anthropologist in The Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. She joined the faculty in the Department of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University, and served as Director of the Women's Studies Program. She is currently a faculty member in the Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry at UCSD, and Director of the Center for Global Mental Health.
Jenkins has been awarded several visiting and scholarly appointments including Visiting Scholar-in residence at the Russell Sage Foundation, Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Social Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Research Fellow at the American Philosophical Society, Member-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study, Distinguished Visiting Faculty at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and Visiting Scholar for the Writing Residency of the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy.
Jenkins has been recipient of the Young Investigator Award by the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression. She received the Stirling Award in 1990 by the Society for Psychological Anthropology for the article "Anthropology, Expressed Emotion, and Schizophrenia." She serves on the editorial board of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry: An International Journal of Cross-Cultural Comparative Research, and Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. She is the President of the American Anthropological Association's Society for Psychological Anthropology.
She has been awarded research funding from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health as Principal Investigator for a study on "Sociocultural Factors and Course of Persistent Mental Illness, National Institute of Mental Health" (NIMH Grant MH 47920; 1990–1996) and "Culture, Schizophrenia, and Atypical Antipsychotics" (NIMH Grant R01 MH 60232; 1999–2004), Co-Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator, "Southwest Youth & Experience of Psychiatric Treatment" (NIMH Grant: R01 MH071781). Jenkins served as a member of three scientific review groups for NIMH ("Emotion and Personality," 1993–1994; "Social, Personality, & Group Processes," 1994–1998; and "Treatment and Services," 2003–2005).
In other sources of funding, Jenkins has been awarded research grants for studies on "Cultural Perceptions of Adolescent 'Bienestar Emocional' (Emotional Well-Being) and Patterns of Help Seeking: An Anthropological Study in Tijuana, Mexico" (University of California, San Diego, Faculty Senate Grant, 2016–2018); "Well-Being and Mental Health of Adolescents: Community Collaboration and Technological Innovations" (Grant C6009, Frontiers of Innovation Scholars Program, Office Research Affairs, University of California, San Diego, 2017–2020), as well as doctoral dissertation research grants from the National Science Foundation.