John Pachankis, PhD
David R. Kessler, M.D. '55 Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences), Professor of Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
John Pachankis, PhD, is the David R. Kessler Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences), Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Psychiatry. He directs Yale’s LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative, which serves as a home for scholarship devoted to understanding and improving the mental and behavioral health of LGBTQ populations in the US and around the world. His research has identified biopsychosocial mechanisms underlying LGBTQ people’s disproportionate risk of mental health problems, including substance use problems, developed treatments to address these mechanisms, and studied the implementation of these treatments to address mental health and substance use problems in community settings across the US and around the world.