Helena Hansen

Professor and Chair of Translational Social Science; Interim Chair of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences; Interim Director, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA / Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior

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Helena Hansen is an American psychiatrist and anthropologist who is a professor and Chair of Translational Social Science at University of California, Los Angeles. Her research considers health equity, and has called for clinical practitioners to address social determinants of health. She holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.