Helen Jack
Helen Jack is a third year internal medicine resident at the University of Washington, and her clinical focus is on primary care for socially and medically complex patients. She also holds a Visiting Researcher position at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at King's College London (KCL). In her role at KCL, Helen has taught in and designed evaluation strategies for NIH and Wellcome Trust-funded mental health capacity building programs in southern Africa. In addition to capacity-building, her global mental health research focuses on recruitment, retention, and training of mental health workers and integration of mental health into primary care. A workforce study she conducted in Ghana with a Yale University-University of Ghana team was used as part of advocacy efforts for the passage of new mental health legislation in Ghana. In addition to global mental health work, Helen has done US-based research on the role of lay health workers in substance use treatment and chronic disease management. Outside of academia, she has held a number of national-level leadership positions with Amnesty International USA. Helen graduated summa cum laude from Yale University; received a second BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar; and earned her MD from Harvard Medical School in 2018.
Helen Jack is a third year internal medicine resident at the University of Washington, and her clinical focus is on primary care for socially and medically complex patients. She also holds a Visiting Researcher position at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at King's College London (KCL). In her role at KCL, Helen has taught in and designed evaluation strategies for NIH and Wellcome Trust-funded mental health capacity building programs in southern Africa. In addition to capacity-building, her global mental health research focuses on recruitment, retention, and training of mental health workers and integration of mental health into primary care. A workforce study she conducted in Ghana with a Yale University-University of Ghana team was used as part of advocacy efforts for the passage of new mental health legislation in Ghana. In addition to global mental health work, Helen has done US-based research on the role of lay health workers in substance use treatment and chronic disease management. Outside of academia, she has held a number of national-level leadership positions with Amnesty International USA. Helen graduated summa cum laude from Yale University; received a second BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar; and earned her MD from Harvard Medical School in 2018.
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