Rachel Jenkins
{{short description|British academic}}
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Rachel McDougall Jenkins {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (born 17 April 1949{{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/13246/Rachel-McDougall-JENKINS|title=Rachel McDougall JENKINS|website=Debrett's People of Today|access-date=25 July 2014}}) is a professor of epidemiology and international mental health policy at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre and a visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.{{cite web|url=http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/staff/profile/default.aspx?go=10829 |title=IoP: staff: Jenkins, Rachel |publisher=Iop.kcl.ac.uk |date=2011-01-31 |access-date=2014-01-17}}{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/prospectus/group/section-of-mental-health-policy--obr-including-who-collaborating-centre-for-research-and-training-in-mental-health-cbr- |title=Section of Mental Health Policy (including WHO Collaborating Centre for Research & Training in Mental Health) - Research groups - King's College London : Online prospectus |publisher=Kcl.ac.uk |access-date=2014-01-17}}
Life
She was educated at Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls, St Paul's Girls' School and Girton College, Cambridge.
In 2005 to 2011, Jenkins led the WHO programme enabling primary care workers to provide mental healthcare in Kenya, with the outcome that 1,677 primary care workers and 195 medical supervisory staff received training.{{cite web|url=http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/mental-health-care-resource-poor-settings |title=Mental health care in resource poor settings |publisher=Nuffield Foundation |access-date=2014-01-17}} She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Mental Health Systems.{{cite web|url=http://www.ijmhs.com/about/edboard |title=International Journal of Mental Health Systems | Editorial Board |publisher=Ijmhs.com |access-date=2014-01-17}}
Jenkins was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to mental health policy and research in the UK and overseas.{{London Gazette|issue=63918|supp=y|page=N26|date=31 December 2022}}
Selected publications
- {{cite journal | last1 = Jenkins | first1 = Rachel | last2 = Kiima | first2 = David | last3 = Njenga | first3 = Frank | last4 = Okonji | first4 = Marx | last5 = Kingora | first5 = James | last6 = Kathuku | first6 = Dammas | last7 = Lock | first7 = Sarah | year = 2010 | title = Integration of mental health into primary care in Kenya | journal = World Psychiatry | volume = 9 | issue = 2| pages = 118–120 | doi = 10.1002/j.2051-5545.2010.tb00289.x | pmc = 2911092 | pmid=20671901}}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Cheng | first1 = Andrew TA | last2 = Chen | first2 = Tony HH | last3 = Chwen-chen | first3 = Chen | last4 = Jenkins | first4 = Rachel | year = 2000 | title = Psychosocial and psychiatric risk factors for suicide: Case-control psychological autopsy study | journal = British Journal of Psychiatry | volume = 177 | issue = 4| pages = 360–365 | doi = 10.1192/bjp.177.4.360 | pmid = 11116779 | doi-access = free }}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Jenkins | first1 = Rachel | last2 = Lewis | first2 = G. | last3 = Bebbington | first3 = P. | last4 = Brugha | first4 = T. | last5 = Farrell | first5 = M. | last6 = Gill | first6 = B. | last7 = Meltzer | first7 = H. | year = 1997 | title = The National Psychiatric Morbidity surveys of Great Britain—initial findings from the household survey | journal = Psychological Medicine | volume = 27 | issue = 4| pages = 775–789 | doi = 10.1017/S0033291797005308 | doi-broken-date = 6 April 2025 | pmid = 9234456 | s2cid = 11878576 }}
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Category:Academics of King's College London
Category:British women academics
Category:People educated at St Paul's Girls' School
Category:People educated at Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls
Category:Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge
Category:British public health doctors
Category:British women psychiatrists
Category:British psychiatrists
Category:British women public health doctors
Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Category:British women epidemiologists
Category:British epidemiologists
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