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Jean J. Schensul,
Ph.D.
Senior Scientist & Founding Director
Institute for Community Research
860-278-2044 ext. 227
jean.schensul@icrweb.org
Jean J. Schensul, Ph.D., is a medical anthropologist
with over 20 years of experience in the conduct of HIV prevention
and other health-related research in urban areas of the United
States and in developing countries. Her areas of expertise
include research methods, drug research, sexuality and HIV,
and school and community based structural approaches to intervention.
Her most recent publications include The Ethnographer's Toolkit,
a seven book boxed series on ethnographic research methods,
published by Altamira Press, "Applied Research Methods"
(Trotter and Schensul) in the Handbook of Ethnographic Methods,
edited by H. Russell Bernard, Altamira Press, and articles
on community based intervention methods, adolescent sexuality,
adolescent marijuana use, and research collaborations.
Dr. Schensul is on the editorial board of Medical Anthropology
Quarterly, past president of the Society for Applied Anthropology,
and recipient with Stephen Schensul of the Solon T. Kimball
award from the American Anthropological Association for application
of anthropology to policy. She has founded or co-founded four
successful health social science research institutes, in the
United States (The Institute for Community Research and the
Hispanic Health Council), Peru (Instituto Nacional de Salud
Comunitaria) and Sri Lanka (Center for Intersectoral Community
Health Studies). She has been responsible for a number of
federal, state and foundation funded studies and intervention
projects, and is currently the principal investigator on three
NIH-funded HIV and drug related grants.
Education
1963 B.A., Anthropology University
of Manitoba, Canada
1967 M.A., Anthropology/Linguistics University of Minnesota
1974 Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology University of Minnesota
Professional History
1971-1974
Research Scientist, Institute for Juvenile Research, Chicago
IL
1976-1978
Program Evaluator, Center for New Schools, Chicago IL
1978-1987
Research/Associate Director, Hispanic Health Council, Hartford
CT
1987-present
Executive Director, Institute for Community Research, Hartford
CT
Teaching Experience
1980-1986
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University,
Evanston IL
1985 --
Honorary Founding Professor, University of Peradeniya and
Center for Intersectoral Community Health Studies, Kandy,
Sri Lanka
1986-1989
Visiting Professor, Universidad Peruana de Cayetano Heredia,
Lina, Peru
1995--
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, UCONN
1997-
Senior Fellow/Research Affiliate, Department of Psychology,
Yale University
Research Experience
1988-1991
Principal Investigator. Project COPE: AIDS Outreach Demonstration
Research Project, NIDA
1988-1994
Principal Investigator. Teen Action Research Project, CSAP
1992-1996
Co- Principal Investigator. Community Outreach Demonstration
Project, Cooperative Agreement NIDA
1994-1999
Principal Investigator. Urban Women Against Substance Abuse,
CSAP
1996-1998
Principal Investigator. Development of AIDS Behavioral Risk
Surveillance Instrument for Sri Lanka. World Bank
1997-2000
Co- Principal Investigator Study of High Risk Drug Use Settings
for HIV Prevention, through Yale CIRA.
1997-ongoing
Administration, Methods and International co-directorships,
Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS,
1998-2003
Principal Investigator, Pathways to High Risk Drug Abuse in
Urban Youth, NIDA
1998-2003
Principal Investigator, Training
grant R25: Youth Action Research Training Institute, NIMH
1999-2003
Principal Investigator, HIV Risk in Older Urban Adult Senior
Housing Residents, NIA.
1999-2004
Principal Investigator, Building Preventive Peer Norms in
Urban Middle School Students, NIDA.
2001-2005
Principal Investigator, Improving Access to Mental Health
Services for Older Hartford Residents, Donaghue Medical Research
Foundation
2001-2006
Principal Investigator, Club Drugs, Resource Inequities and
Health Risks Among Urban Youth, NIDA
2002-2003
Principal Investigator, Training and Pilot Research Related
to the
Prevention of HIV Infection in Migrant Youth in Mumbai. World
AIDS Foundation with IIPS, Mumbai, India.
Selected Publications
2003
Key Informants. Article in Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior,
edited by N. Anderson, in press.
2003
Ward, E, Disch W, Levy J & Schensul JJ. Perception of
HIV/AIDS Risk Among Urban, Low-Income Senior Housing Residents,
submitted for review to AIDS Education and Behavior.
2003
Schensul J., Levy J, & Disch W. Individual, Contextual,
and Social Network Factors Affecting Exposure to HIV/AIDS
Risk among Older Adults in Low-Income Senior Housing Complexes.
JAIDS, in press.
2003
Nastasi BK, Schensul, JJ, Balkcom, CT & Cintron-Moscoso
F. Integrating Research and Practice to Facilitate Implementation
Across Multiple Contexts: Illustration from an Urban Middle
School Drug and Sexual Risk Prevention Program. In Advances
in School Based Mental Health: Best Practices and Program
Models, edited by xxxxxxxxxxxxxx. In press.
2003
Liao, S, Schensul J & Wolffers I. Sex-related health risks
and implications for interventions with Hospitality Women
in Hainan, China. Health Education and Behavior. In press.
2003
Radda, K. E., Schensul, J. J., Disch, W. B., Ward, E., Levy,
J. A., & Reyes, C. Y. Assessing Human Immunodeficiency
Virus (HIV) Risk among Older Urban Adults. Family Community
Health, 26(3), 203-213.
2002
Theories Guiding Outcomes for Action Research for Service
Learning, chapter in Service Learning Research, Volume 1:
The Essence of the Pedagogy, edited by Andrew Furco and Shelley
Billig. NY: Information Age Publishers.
2002
Weeks, M.R., Clair, S., Borgatti, S.P., Radda, K. & Schensul,
J.J. Social networks of drug users in high risk sites: Finding
the connections. AIDS and Behavior, 6, 193-206.
2002
Ethnicity, social networks and HIV Risk in older drug users,
Advances in Medical sociology Volume 8. Social Networks and
Health. Bernice Pescoslido and Judith A. Levy, etc. London:
Oxford press. In press
2002
Dust in the wind: the growing use of embalming fluid among
youth in Hartford, Ct. Singer, M., Clair, S., Schensul, J.,
Huebner, C., Eiserman, J., Pino, R., Garcia, J., Jr. of Psychotropic
Drugs, submitted for review.
2002
Democratizing Science through social science research partnerships.
Special Issue of Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society,
edited by J. Chopyak and J. Hudspith.
2001
High-Risk drug use sites, meaning and practice: Implications
for AIDS prevention.(authors) Journal of Drug Issues Vol.
31(1):781-808.
2000
The High, The Money and The Fame: Smoking Bud Among Urban
Youth. Schensul, J., Huebner, C., Singer, M., Snow, M. Feliciano,
P., Broomhall, L. Medical Anthropology, Vol. 18:389-414.
2000
Nastasi, B. K., Varjas, K., Schensul, S. L., Silva, K. T.,
Schensul, J. J., Ratnayake, P. The Participatory Intervention
Model: A framework for conceptualizing and promoting intervention
acceptability. School Psychology Quarterly, 15, 207-232.
1999
Building Community Research Partnerships in the Struggle Against
AIDS. In special issue of Health Education and Behavior, edited
by Ron Stall, Katherine Haynes Sanstad and Lynda Doll. Vol.
26, #2
1999
The Ethnographer's Toolkit. Edited/co-authored by Schensul
J. & LeCompte M. with chapter authors. Seven Oaks Innovation.
CA: Altamira Press, 7 volumes. Book (190 - 250 pages each):
Introduction to Ethnographic Research Methods (1); Essential
Ethnographic Methods (2); Enhanced Ethnographic Methods (3);
Researching Social Networks, Spatial Data and Hidden Populations
(4) ; Analysis and Interpretation of Ethnographic Data (Book
5); Researcher's Role and Research Partnerships (Book 6);
Disseminating Ethnographic Data (7).
1998
Community Based Risk Prevention with Urban Youth, School Psychology
Review, Special issue on Mental Health Programming in Schools
and Communities, ed. Nastasi B., Vol 27(2).
1998-99
Nastasi, B. K., Schensul, J. J., deSilva, M.W.A, Varjas, K.,
Silva, K. T., Ratnayake, P., & Schensul, S. L. Community
based sexual risk prevention program for Sri Lankan youth:
Influencing sexual-risk decision making. International Quarterly
of Community Health Education, 18 (1), 139-155.
1998-99
Learning about sexual decision-making from Urban Adolescents.
International Quarterly of Community Health Education, special
issue on Cross Cultural Perspectives of Women's Sexual Decision
making: Implications for sexual health protection at the community
level, edited by M.I. Torres & M. Weeks, Vol. 18(1):29-48,
1998-99
1998
R. Trotter & J. Schensul. Applied Ethnographic Research
Methods. Chapter in Handbook of Ethnographic Methods, edited
by HR Bernard. CA: Altamira Press, pp.
Selected Presentations
2003
Drug use and HIV risk among older adults. Invited presentation,
NIA funded conference on older adults and HIV. Columbia University,
March.
2002
Models of School Reform that enhance Children's Voice. In
invited System-Reform Initiatives in Urban School Districts
organized by Bonnie Nastasi, Ph.D. National Association of
School Psychologists, Chicago, February.
2002
AERA Panel on Qualitative Quantitative methods, based on results
of APA Division 16 working group on the development of standards
and guidelines for qualitative research in intervention studies/clinical
trials. Organized by Bonnie Nastasi, Ph.D., working group
chair.
2002
Organized symposium on Action Research for Community and School
Change, Society for Applied Anthropology, Atlanta, 2002.
2002
Keynote address: Symposium on Community Based Research in
conjunction with Canadian National AIDS Conference, entitled
"Community Based Research: a revolutionary tool",
April 25, 2002, Winnipeg, Canada.
2002
Invited speaker: NIH Office of Social and Behavioral Sciences
panel on "New Directions in Adherence Research: Using
Qualitative Methods to Improve adherence and Promote Self-care",
organized by Susan Huertin-Roberts, NCI and Susan Czaijkowski,
NHLBI, and qualitative working group member, June 2 -3, Neurosciences
Center, Bethesda.
2002
Posters accepted for 14th International AIDS conference, Barcelona
(on MDMA and HIV risk in urban youth) and APA conference,
August, 2002 (on vulnerability and sexual risk among urban
youth)
2002
Distal factors influencing drug use decision making among
adolescents. Invited talk, NIDA working group on distal and
proximal factors. Washington, D.C.
2001
Strengthening Communities through Action Research. Keynote
Panel on Community Building, Society for Applied Anthropology
meeting, Merida, Yucatan.
2001
Club Drugs and Sex Risk: Organized Panel, Society for Applied
Anthropology, Merida, Yucatan.
2001
The diffusion of MDMA use among urban youth in Hartford, CT;
implications for drug and HIV prevention in club drug users
and their networks. NIDA Conference on MDMA, Bethesda, July,
2001.
2002
Youth Led Research for Action and Evaluation. Keynote Panel,
Search Institute Conference, Indianapolis.
2000
HIV Risk in older drug users: social setting, social influence
and social networks. Poster, International AIDS Congress,
Durban.
2000
Club Drugs and Sexual Risk in Urban Youth, OAR Invited presenter,
Prevention Works Preconference, Durban, South Africa.
2000
Site and Settings: Older Adults and HIV Risk. Keynote speaker,
NIA Conference on AIDS and older adults
2000
The Interaction of Qualitative and Quantitative Research.
Invited Address. International Institute for Population Sciences,
Mumbai, India.
1999
Drugs and Sex Risk, NIDA Press conference and panel on club
drugs, CADCAS conference
1999
Club Drugs and other Emerging Drug Trends among Urban Youth.
NIDA REACT Meeting, San Francisco
Professional Positions and Honors
1985
President, Council on Anthropology and Education
1987
Hispanic Health Council Service Award for research in Latino
communities
1990
Solon T. Kimball Biennial American Anthropology Association.
Policy Research Award
1992
San Juan Center/OPUS Community Service Award for research
on aging in Latino communities
1995-1997
President, Society for Applied Anthropology
1996
Audrey Lorde Award for Scholar-Activist Collaboration in Women's
Studies, Union Institute
1996
Rockefeller Foundation one-month residency: Bellagio Conference
Center for work on AIDS in Sri Lanka.
2000
Residency, School for American Research, Santa Fe, for work
on community building
2001
AAA/SfAA Commission on the Application of Anthropology to
Social and Health Problems
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