Jess Ghannam, PhD
Volunteer Clinical Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Dr. Ghannam has developed community health clinics in the Middle East that focus on developing community-based treatment programs for families in crisis.

He is also a consultant with the Center for Constitutional Rights, Reprieve and other international NGO's that work with torture survivors. Locally he works to promote and enhance the health and wellness of refugee, displaced, and immigrant populations from the Middle East,North Africa and South Asia and has established a community-based Mental Health Treatment Programs to support these communities. He has worked as a consultant for the WHO and other international NGOs working with refugees and displaced communities.

At UCSF Dr. Ghannam develops culturally respectful training programs for staff, students and faculty working with patients from the Middle East. He has served on the Chancellor's Council of Campus Climate, Culture and Inclusion and is the former faculty co-chair of the UCP, University and Community Partnerships Committee. He works with medical students and residents across disciplines to promote and enhance their clinical and research skills. Dr. Ghannam specializes in working with chronic illness, including chronic pain and cancer. He also works and does research in the area of Global Health and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Dr. Ghannam is also a Qualified Medical Examiner (QME) for the State of California.

Dr. Ghannam is currently the interim Chair of the UCSF Faculty Association (https://ucsffa.org/) and the Director of the UCSF Scholars at Risk Program (https://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/education/global-scholars/).

Dr. Ghannam is currently the Advocacy Director for the UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative, where he also serves as senior mental health advisor on the HHRI Leadership Team (https://humanrights.ucsf.edu/)

He is past president of the Arab Cultural and Community Center, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in San Francisco, and the Arab Film and Media Center. Dr. Ghannam is also a co-founder of the Institute for the Understanding of Anti-Palestinian Racism (https://antipalestinianracism.org/)

UCSF Links

https://humanrights.ucsf.edu/

https://ucsffa.org/

https://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/education/global-scholars/

http://directory.ucsf.edu/people_detail.jsp?FNO=Jess.Ghannam@ucsf.edu

• The psychological toll of slum living in Mumbai, India: a mixed methods study.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2014 Subbaraman R, Nolan L, Shitole T, Sawant K, Shitole S, Sood K, Nanarkar M, Ghannam J, Betancourt TS, Bloom DE, Patil-Deshmukh A
• The psychological toll of slum living—an assessment of mental health, disability, and slum-related adversities in Mumbai, India.
  The Lancet Global Health 2014 Ramnath Subbaraman, Laura B Nolan, Tejal Shitole, Kiran Sawant, Shrutika Shitole, Kunal Sood, Mahesh Nanarkar, Jess Ghannam, David E Bloom, Anita Patil-Deshmukh
• Health and Human Rights in Palestine: The Siege and Invasion of Gaza and the Role of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement.
  Human Rights in the Middle East 2011 Jess Ghannam
• Cancer registration and healthcare access in West Bank, Palestine: a GIS analysis of childhood cancer, 1998-2007.
  International journal of cancer 2010 Bailony MR, Hararah MK, Salhab AR, Ghannam I, Abdeen Z, Ghannam J
• Post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety among Gaza Strip adolescents in the wake of the second Uprising (Intifada).
  Child abuse & neglect 2007 Elbedour S, Onwuegbuzie AJ, Ghannam J, Whitcome JA, Abu Hein F
• The use of psychoanalytic constructs in the service of empire: Comment on Baruch (2003).
  Psychoanalytic Psychology 2005 Jess Ghannam
• Definitions of Terrorism.
  JAMA 2003 Robert Lipton, Jess H. Ghannam, Joel Beinin
• Definitions of terrorism.
  JAMA 2003 Lipton R, Ghannam JH, Beinin J
• A neural correlate of consciousness related to repression.
  Consciousness and cognition 2002 Shevrin H, Ghannam JH, Libet B