Helena Hansen

Helena Hansen
Hansen at the 2017 National Conference for Physician Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SHSSM)
Alma materHarvard University, Yale University, NYU Langone Health
SpouseMark Turner
Children2
Scientific career
InstitutionsNYU Medical Center
University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis!En Victoria! : spiritual capital and self-made men in Puerto Rican addiction ministries (2004)

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.