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Janis H. Jenkins is a psychological/medical anthropologist with expertise on culture and mental health. She is currently on the faculty of University of California, San Diego, where he is Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology.

Jenkins has contributed primarily to the field of medical anthropology, and her writings have explored the cultural meaning of mental illnesses, lived experiences of illness, and the influence of sociocultural factors to the course and outcome of mental illnesses. She has conducted research with Mexican immigrants/migrants, Salvadoran refugees, Vietnamese and Iraqi Kurdish refugees, Puerto Rican migrants, and other Spanish-speaking Latinos, as well as comparative research for Euro-Americans, Native Americans, and African American populations.

Jenkins has trained over 60 doctoral/post-doctoral students, many of whom are successful awardees of NIH, NSF, and Wenner-Gren research grants as well as eight NIH K awardees. At UCSD, she has been an active leader in Global Health since the inception of the Global Health Initiative. Jenkins is the Founding Director of the Center for Global Mental Health at UC San Diego.